Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-23 Thread MK-MacPorts
On 22 Mar 2014, at 20:55 , Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: I do not log any post data along with the IP address, so I cannot tie IPs to UUIDs, except maybe by correlating the last-update timestamp and the log file. We are talking NSA-like meta-data, which could be linked to a real person…

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-23 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, On 22 Mar 2014, at 20:55 , Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: I do not log any post data along with the IP address, so I cannot tie IPs to UUIDs, except maybe by correlating the last-update timestamp and the log file. We are talking NSA-like meta-data, which could be linked to a

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-23 Thread MK-MacPorts
Dear Clemens, first of all I apologise if my words were too harsh. It was not my intention to attack you or anyone else on a personal level! I am just concerned about everyone’s privacy. I have (as I said I was going to in a different part of my last mail you didn't quote) changed my

Re: kmail cannot send email : reason identified (?)

2014-03-23 Thread Nicolas Pavillon
Hello, I am indeed the culprit for this one. However, there is a little bit more to it than the fact that I could not find anything using it (missing kmail, obviously), thus commenting it out. All kde Portfiles had a conflict between their GPL-2 license and the openssl one, on which they

Re: kmail cannot send email : reason identified (?)

2014-03-23 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Monday March 24 2014 02:37:17 Nicolas Pavillon wrote: Hello, I am indeed the culprit for this one. However, there is a little bit more to it than the fact that I could not find anything using it (missing kmail, obviously), thus commenting it out. And sadly, my initial tests don't show

Re: A smarter migration behaviour (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-23 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2014-03-22 19:48, Davor Cubranic wrote: The amount of traffic to this list that comes down to “you need to run the migration steps from the [Migration] page” is astounding, and it must be a real drain on the time of those who by now must have answered hundreds of such questions. It

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-23 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Mar 22, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: I’m not arguing that the data should be completely public, but checking where we are were the data to become completely public through accident or hack, etc. And maybe I’m suggesting that it might not be so dangerous to make

Re: A smarter migration behaviour (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-23 Thread Davor Cubranic
On Mar 23, 2014, at 5:19 PM, Rainer Müller rai...@macports.org wrote: You actually describe what is already coming with the next release: http://trac.macports.org/changeset/113478 Glad to hear that! Davor___ macports-users mailing list

Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

2014-03-23 Thread Davor Cubranic
This reminds me of the classic “Worse is Better” essay on Lisp vs C (and MIT vs Bell Labs) approach to software systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better): There is a number of comparison points in the essay, but this is the most relevant one: - C: It is slightly better to be