On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 19:41 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > 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. > > How would a separate repository solve the problem? The repo information > would still be distributed and we still need to coordinate with the > mirrors to get more information. It should not take many machines to robustly distribute a single file. Keep all mirrors on machines you already control. > Second, it gives > > the individual user a way to opt out by removing that > > repository from their list. > > If we collect the update stats from the mirrors transparently and use > other specific procedures as a opt in mechanism, we already have this > settled. How can I keep my information from being collected in logs on repositories where I actually need the files? You may claim you have a way that will keep you from using them, but how can you prove that to me? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
