On 2026-02-11 at 13:57 -0500, Stephen J Smoogen wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2026, at 1:39 PM, Łukasz Posadowski wrote:
> > On 2026-02-06 at 16:51 +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> > > After making another 10 years old package build on RISC-V 64-bit
> > > port
> > > I 
> > > started to wonder:
> > > 
> > > Will there be some kind of 'does anyone uses it still' check in
> > > Fedora?
> > > 
> > 
> > RHEL has optional repo called "codeready" with developer tools and
> > most
> > of the devel packages, but I think it is more delegated to the
> > "extras"
> > role. If Fedora packages would move to "extras/legacy/dontcare"
> > repository, it would be possible to count mirrorlist metalink
> > requests,
> > some of them from IP's unique enough to count them as users.
> 
> I don't think that would work. dnf will request information from every
> repo it knows about to make sure it is up to date. This is because
> packages might have moved repositories or the user may have enabled
> repo X because it migth have newer versions of a package they wanted. 
> battle. -- Ian MacClaren

Sadly, You're right. (-: And having only metalink logs there is no way
to tell what users are actually downloading.

-- 
Łukasz Posadowski

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