Mike McGrath: >> I think you guys are focusing too much on semantics. Yum, updates, >> checking for updates, caching, blah. What we're talking about is a >> phone home mechanism that can easily be disabled at install time. Andy Green: > Capturing that information by the existing traffic with Fedora mirrors > is a neat solution that gives you ongoing stats using information that > all users of the mirrors are content to let out already. I would have thought that how much use the mirrors get is more valuable information. That lets you know how much people want the updates (they bother, or don't bother to update), and how much resources you, therefore, need to pour into providing the service. There isn't going to be any way that you could know how many installations were made. That sort of statistical analysis is always going to be significantly wrong. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
