From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev-return-16827-arch-gentoo-dev=gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 27227 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2004 13:29:01 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 23 Oct 2004 13:29:01 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CLLx6-0001C0-Tb for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:29:00 +0000 Received: (qmail 26035 invoked by uid 89); 23 Oct 2004 13:29:00 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 24118 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2004 13:28:59 +0000 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:29:00 -0400 From: Jason Cooper <gentoo@lakedaemon.net> To: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@utopios.org> Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20041023132859.GB8032@lakedaemon.net> References: <dda83e780410101038293fdad9@mail.gmail.com> <200410222200.58586.luke-jr@utopios.org> <8f5ca221041022151375aa8ca@mail.gmail.com> <200410222224.10522.luke-jr@utopios.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200410222224.10522.luke-jr@utopios.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rsync speed and space taken X-Archives-Salt: 362a4fff-f611-4487-9605-e0784d06014a X-Archives-Hash: 6634967b568d402072c8a01f9917fe01 Luke-Jr (luke-jr@utopios.org) scribbled: > On Friday 22 October 2004 10:13 pm, Mike wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:00:55 +0000, Luke-Jr <luke-jr@utopios.org> wrote: > > > On Friday 22 October 2004 9:56 pm, Andrew Fant wrote: > > > > I'm not sure that I would call that a cool benefit. It seems to come > > > > close to an egregious violation of privacy. I know that there is no > > > > promise of confidentiality in the use of the portage rsync servers, but > > > > to actively and publicly start collecting data about who is using what > > > > seems to only invite more paranoia. > > > > > > Except that it won't be able to reliably collect the "who" part, only the > > > "what". Sure, you could log IPs, but many users IPs change more > > > frequently than they sync. > > > > Even the what won't be reliable, as it won't show all of us who use > > emerge-webrsync due to firewall restrictions. > It would be a decent sample, though. Which is a positive thing, IMO... > I recall when I was a developer I was wondering whether a pkg was ready for > stable or if simply nobody had tried it... In that case, it was a > not-so-common server, so I wouldn't be surprised if all the people using it > stuck w/ stable version... I'm also wary of the idea of logging what people have installed on their machines... It's too prone to abuse. There are other solutions to your dilemma above; say, asking on gentoo-user ;) I don't think the potential for abuse is worth the knowledge gain. Cooper. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list