Popularity Contest

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> Absolutely.  To enable it, run:
> 
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz

Just did that. However it was said that the stats would go to Ubuntu,
but the text said "Debian Debian Debian Debian Debian.....", so it's
rather off-putting.
Well, that's with Warty, maybe the text has been updated in Hoary...
Then again, not much harm, since nobody know about this script nor how
to turn it on in the first place.. 
Maybe it should just be turned on by default. After all, in Hoary there
is the update notifier which obviously knows about all the packages in
the system and talks to the Ubuntu server all day long, yet it's enabled
by default and nobody minds it seems. So why not just extend the
update-notifier roles a bit to let it send packages stats once in a
while ? We could always put an option in the preferences of the applet,
to turn it off/on at will.
That would be one less script in the system, a smaller/cleaner Ubuntu,
can't be bad a thing...

Opinions ?


--
Vince