On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 08:51, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > > Yes, that's why I said 'add a repository' above. If you have > > a few reliable machines that you control, don't use any others > > as mirrors. It shouldn't be a big load to serve one file > > that changes once a month - and it gives the users an easy > > way to opt out if they feel that being counted violates > > their privacy. My personal feeling is that as long as everyone > > knows the result it is not an issue for me. I might have a > > problem with it if some other group collected my information > > and withheld it from everyone else. > > I dont see the advantage of using a specific repository instead of just > getting the logs from the mirrors on the package update hits they get. > They already are syncing gigabytes of package updates. There are 2 advantages. First, you can control what machines act as mirrors and thus not have to arrange anything with other parties to get access to the logs. Second, it gives the individual user a way to opt out by removing that repository from their list. A side effect is that you would not be able to collate data on what packages users have installed. Is that something you want? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
