popularity-contest

[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

John Dangler wrote:

> 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...

I believe it's installed automatically by default, but disabled. My
feeble memory seems to recall seeing some dialog about enabling it
along the way somewhere in the Edgy install, but I could be wrong
about that.

It's in System > Administration > Software Sources, on the Statistics
tab if you want to check. If you weren't previously aware of it it
*should* still be disabled.

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