On Dec 16, 2007 4:28 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This RFE is already filed but I would like to see the ability to > optionally report installed package lists to Smolt similar to what > popcon does in Debian. It's been asked for before, and knocked down for a number of concerns. Some people just don't want it, although, personally I do like the idea. But so far we've tried to keep Smolt's scope limited to hardware related details, or details about the overall machine. > Smolt already collects the kernel version so this is just a extension of > that. It has not been done before because Mugshot was doing something > similar but I don't see Mugshot have a overlapping feature as a problem > in this instance since better stats would allow us to integrate nice > features into the package management system showing which packages are > popular among other things. The kernel version is related to driver information that is also stored. We want to know that if someone had a problem with their foo-widget it's because they were using the older version of the driver, and not the liberated one that Fedora has worked hard for. Popcon is a great idea, but right now, I'm figuring there would be a few problems if we went ahead with it. Not to mention, there are only so many dev hours in a day, and I have some other fun things for Smolt first. -Yaakov -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
