thoughts on LWN "how many Fedora users are there"

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:

> Yes, that's why I said 'add a repository' above.  If you have
> a few reliable machines that you control, don't use any others
> as mirrors.  It shouldn't be a big load to serve one file
> that changes once a month - and it gives the users an easy
> way to opt out if they feel that being counted violates
> their privacy.  My personal feeling is that as long as everyone
> knows the result it is not an issue for me.  I might have a
> problem with it if some other group collected my information
> and withheld it from everyone else.

I dont see the advantage of using a specific repository instead of just 
getting the logs from the mirrors on the package update hits they get. 
They already are syncing gigabytes of package updates.

Rahul