Suggestion

[Dan Aldrich]

I was thinking more of an interface like what sourceforge offers. 
Recommendations and number of d/l's a week. The comments make it 
sound like more trouble than it's worth.

-d

At 03:28 PM 5/27/2013, you wrote:

>Are we wanting to track this information in order to gauge 
>popularity of ports? If so, would other data capture that 
>information better? Should users be able to "star" or "favorite" 
>ports as a way of indicating popularity? Should MacPorts "phone 
>home" whenever a port is installed or uninstalled, thus tracking 
>what ports people are actually using? This has been proposed before 
>and was thought by some users to be too invasive. It could be made 
>opt-in, but that would make it basically useless IMHO.