popularity-contest

John Dangler jdangler at atlantic.net
Wed Mar 28 21:05:26 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:36 +0200, Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> OOzy Pal wrote:
> > I just updated my Kubuntu and I saw popularity-contest installing in
> > my computer. What is this
> 
> Quote from aptitude show popularity-contest
> 
> "
> When you install this package, it sets up a cron job that will
> anonymously submit statistics about your most used packages periodically
> to the developers.
> 
>  This information helps us make decisions such as which packages should
> be promoted and so be in standard installs.

So, why don't they ask first before installing this?  It is certainly a
legitimate request, and I don't mind helping out the packagers at all,
but to find out that it's running via the list was a bit
disconcerting...

> 
>  Homepage: http://popcon.ubuntu.com
> 
> "
> 
> HTH
> 
> Carsten
> 





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