Deleting ports: bittorent, py-dsv & spe

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Aug 28 03:06:51 PDT 2013


On 2013-8-28 19:18 , Clemens Lang wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:41:25AM +1000, Joshua Root wrote:
>> I think it should be reworked to install the client side as a port,
>> since it needs to be opt-in anyway, and then you could just do 'sudo
>> port load portstats' (or whatever we call it) to have it automatically
>> report at regular intervals.
> 
> Yes, that certainly is a way to handle that. I would like to guide all
> users into making a decision on this, though – e.g., by printing a
> warning after each installation, if there has neither been an opt-in,
> nor an opt-out. I don't want opt-out to be the default, because that
> might render the statistics useless.

There was a lengthy discussion on the list before, and the conclusion
was that opt-out must be the default. Drawing attention to the feature
*once* after new installs or after upgrading from a version that didn't
support it would be OK.

- Josh


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