make mpstats a depends run on legacysupport?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sat Sep 7 15:29:37 UTC 2019


On 2019-9-8 00:31 , Ken Cunningham wrote:
> To get a sense of how much our older systems support is used, I am tempted to make the mpstats port a depends_run-append for legacysupport., which is installed on all older systems.
> 
> How awful do you think this might be? 

Very.

> If totally unpalatable, could we at least make it an opt-out variant?

No. Mainly because stats are very deliberately opt-in, but also because
making them opt-out only in certain cases would skew the numbers.

- Josh


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