Deleting ports: bittorent, py-dsv & spe

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-8-28 20:06 , Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2013-8-28 19:18 , Clemens Lang wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:41:25AM +1000, Joshua Root wrote:
>>> I think it should be reworked to install the client side as a port,
>>> since it needs to be opt-in anyway, and then you could just do 'sudo
>>> port load portstats' (or whatever we call it) to have it automatically
>>> report at regular intervals.
>>
>> Yes, that certainly is a way to handle that. I would like to guide all
>> users into making a decision on this, though – e.g., by printing a
>> warning after each installation, if there has neither been an opt-in,
>> nor an opt-out. I don't want opt-out to be the default, because that
>> might render the statistics useless.
> 
> There was a lengthy discussion on the list before, and the conclusion
> was that opt-out must be the default. Drawing attention to the feature
> *once* after new installs or after upgrading from a version that didn't
> support it would be OK.

Er, "opt-out must be the default" isn't really the right way of putting
it though. Nobody should have to opt out, they should have to opt in.

- Josh