Popularity Contest

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 19:20 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > 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

I don't know how much info is uploaded - but dialup users might curse :)