On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 12:14 -0400, Will Woods wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 08:31 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Monday 11 June 2007 01:08:40 Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > So, this is something I'd *love* to have - some sort of stats on > > > how many people have installed package X; useful for doing checks > > > to see what should or shouldn't be on the DVDs, and so on. I know > > > the mugshot stats exist, but that's not the same. > > > > And how thrown off is this data by people who install Everything, or all in a > > group but never use the data? More important than 'how many people installed > > package X' is perhaps "how many people installed package X that wasn't on the > > media" and even more importantly "how many people launched package X and what > > was X's deps?". > > Debian's popcon[0] utility does almost exactly that. This would > make a nice counterpart to smolt - where smolt tracks what hardware > people are using, popcon tracks what *software* they're using. It's all > proven, open-source stuff - adding this as a feature for F8 wouldn't be > hard. > > On the other hand, I don't want to duplicate code. Since we're already > talking about more Mugshot-y stuff in F8[1], maybe it makes sense to > extend the Mugshot application info-gathering backend to work more like > popcon. Perhaps it would need to be split out from Mugshot so people who > don't care about Mugshot can still opt to collect and submit stats. > > Thoughts? Linux is gradually approaching 1984. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
