From: Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>
To: Daniel Poelzleithner <poelzi@poelzi.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: xtime as new inode attribute
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:47:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B29C5FA.8090909@mnsu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B292D9A.5060501@poelzi.org>
Daniel Poelzleithner wrote:
> The problem:
>
> If a linux installation gets older and older, more and more programs get
> installed over time. Mostly to just test them for a particular problem
> and often the deinstallation is forgotten. To find out which packages
> are not used for a long time is currently quite impossible. The user may
> use program X which will run but not depend on program Y as a subprocess
> for example.
>
> The solution:
Perhaps something like the "Debian package Popularity Contest":
http://popcon.debian.org/
...
The popularity contest project is an attempt to map the usage of Debian
packages. This site publishes the statistics gathered from report sent
by users of the popularity-contest package. This package sends every
week the list of packages installed and the access time of relevant
files to the server via email. Every day the server anonymizes the
result and publishes this survey. For more information, read the README
and the FAQ.
...
--
Jeffrey Hundstad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-17 6:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-16 18:57 Suggestion: xtime as new inode attribute Daniel Poelzleithner
2009-12-17 1:00 ` Simon Horman
2009-12-17 5:47 ` Jeffrey Hundstad [this message]
2009-12-18 9:27 ` Daniel Poelzleithner
2009-12-18 14:59 ` tytso
2009-12-17 7:06 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-12-18 9:19 ` Daniel Poelzleithner
2009-12-19 0:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-19 1:48 ` Frans Pop
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4B29C5FA.8090909@mnsu.edu \
--to=jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=poelzi@poelzi.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox