On 25 March 2014 22:41, Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > We might _store_ just a hash code, but I am pretty sure the messages > contain the real IP address of the sender.
Sure, just as much as your IP is sent to the NTP server or the google.com homepage. > The feature should be useful, but it should operate locally. Based on > whoever chooses to tell us what is installed, we could calculate a set > of recommendation rules. The package installation facility could > check those rules to make recommendations, in a purely local way. > That would avoid asking people to upload their list of installed packages > in order to get recommendations. That's exactly what I want to do, getting recommendations from a remote source would be both inefficient and unnecessary. Your arguments identifies the root cause of all this effort; without _data_ we can't actually generate these client side rules. I could manually go though a thousand applications and try to think what *I* might use if I had this application installed, but that's going to be both wildly inaccurate given I'm not the kind of person to generate knitting patterns or listen to MIDI music. It's the data I need. Ohh, and asking random people to send me a package list is going to wildly skew the results; normal people don't run random commands in a terminal. We want data from people using GNOME, rather than *developing* GNOME. If you can think of a better way to get this data, I'm all ears. Richard _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
