Re: Are popcon stats per package and arch possible?

[Bart Martens <bartm@knars.be>]

On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 10:40 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Michael Hanke]
> > I wonder whether it is possible to get information about which
> > package is installed/used on a particular architecture.
> 
> It is possible, but it isn't done at the moment.  We do not store the
> data needed to generate such reports, but it could be done with the
> data set we have at every given point in time.
> 
> But I would be reluctant to do it for the less used architectures, for
> privacy reasons.  The information we get from such analysis would be
> too easy to associate with individual users (like the kfreebsd-amd64
> porters for that arch. :).

I agree about "privacy reasons".  Thanks for keeping this aspect in
mind.