On 10/17/06, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/14/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 21:32 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> If you want to not even let the project collect anonymous hits you just > >> have to use a local mirror. > > > > And where would *that* get its files from? > > > > This is a pedantic argument. The central mirror list has certain > bandwidth requirements to be met before it is included. There are many > many mirrors out there which are public but dont meet the bandwidth > requirements and hence wont be included or counted as hits in our list. > Moreover if you dont use the central mirror list and instead pick one > specifically which is not the main mirror, you wont be counted by us. > > Lets suppose that you did pick from one of the mirrors included in our > list, you rsync and hit the mirror once and you can setup a local mirror > that distributes to any number of local systems without hitting the main > mirrors at all. > > Since I havent seen anyone express concerns over us collecting metrics > from anonymous hit logs that would be what we would be doing post FC6 > release. Maybe on FC7, we can have a opt in mechanism to collect more > stats. Having a better idea on how many users we have would be a good > thing and what we have been wanting to do for quite sometime. > > Rahul > > Is Red Hat requesting the number of users information because Fedora now uses yum and yum does not require/provide the single point of contact up2date provided?
When last did Fedora _not_ use yum? -- Fedora Core 5 and proud
