make mpstats a depends run on legacysupport?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sat Sep 7 19:48:36 UTC 2019


On 2019-9-8 05:43 , Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I agree, it should remain opt in, but that should not prevent us really
> pushing to get more people to agree to install mpstats to contribute
> their system info. Now we have
> 
> https://ports.macports.org/statistics/
> 
> online we really should try and improve the data base of stats it gets.
> 
> To that end, I would for instance have no problem with the legacy
> support port giving some notes, for uses on those older systems,
> suggesting if they want to keep these older systems supported at all,
> they should contribute stats for them so we know there is still interest.
> 
> We also I think could better promote it, on new installations and
> selfupdates.

Yes, again this is more or less exactly what we said in the previous
discussion. :)

- Josh


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