popularity-contest

[John Dangler]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 22:19 +0100, John K Masters wrote:
> 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'.
hrmm.. I don't remember that during Edgy...
> 
> Regards, John
>