Track who installed what ports on what OS and on what processor

[Eric Hall]

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:52:22PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> I think it would be cool to track some statistics about how people  
> are using MacPorts.
> 
> We should track how many users have each port installed, so that we  
> can determine what the "most popular" ports are. Not just how many  
> have tried a port and then uninstalled it again, but how many people  
> currently have a particular port active. When a user activates a  
> port, the count should go up; when a user deactivates a port, the  
> count should go back down.
> 
> This might be considered an invasion of privacy... would anybody here  
> be opposed to this? Participation in these statistics could be made  
> optional through a config file setting. But it should probably be on  
> by default, otherwise we probably wouldn't get much data.
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> 
> Thoughts?
> 

	Yes.  That's evil, don't do it.  
	There are a number of useful features that macports needs that
limited developer and support resources can be spent on (new, variants-aware
dependency engine anyone?) instead of features that (effectively) spy on
users.


		-eric