Simple answer to "what's in your universe?"

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 07:56:55PM +1100, Lex Hider wrote:

> Having looked at the original "what's in your universe?" thread
> mentioned in Ubuntu Traffic #6:
> http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~mako/ubuntu-traffic/u20041001_06.html#3
> 
> I think having hard data like this would be a great way on deciding on
> which packages could be integrated into Supported for Hoary and future
> releases. Perhaps Ubuntu could have it's own popularity contest.

Ubuntu does in fact have its own popularity contest; it's even included in
the base system.

However, due to privacy concerns, it is disabled by default, and as part of
the process of simplifying installation, Ubuntu doesn't ask the user whether
they'd like to participate.

Users who would like to participate should run:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest

> Here are some tips that use that great app: aptitude.

These are handy; would you create a page in the wiki with these examples?
It would probably be best to document them as complete commands, so that
they don't rely on an alias and can be cut-and-pasted by anyone.

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 - mdz