popularity-contest

[Peter Garrett]

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

> 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...

It only runs if you agree to run it. It is off by default.  One way to
change to yes/no  is

sudo dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest 

but I seem to recall there is a question about it in the GUI installer
too...

Peter