popularity-contest

[John K Masters]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:05:26 -0400
John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net> wrote:

> 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...
> 
On a fresh install you are asked if you wish to participate, at least I
was on Ubuntu (Feisty), Kubuntu (Feisty) and Debian Etch. Not sure
about upgrades tho'.

Regards, John