Just make it opt in. "Bradley Giesbrecht" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On Apr 17, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> >> On Apr 17, 2010, at 18:55, Marko Käning wrote: >> >>> I was just thinking that it might be helpful to know which ports >>> are most actively used by the community. >>> >>> Is there a way to determine how often ports got actually installed? >>> >>> That would be perhaps some help when it is up to decide which ports >>> need special care, don't you think? >> >> Yes, I think it would be useful. When I suggested it a few years ago >> someone thought this would be an invasion of privacy (tracking who >> installed what ports) so nothing was done. So currently there isn't >> a good way to track this. > >Wouldn't doing an md5 of identity (machine serial or something) or >some other identity protection be adequate? >You have to register with apple to get dev tools. > >I would think that knowing this information would be helpful enough in >prioritizing ticket fixes that the privacy tradeoff would be an >acceptable cost. > > >// Brad >_______________________________________________ >macports-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev >
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