Re: popularity-contest

On 03/28/2007 02:57 PM, Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Don't recall being asked. All of my installs are via the alternate CD's
and while I may have a slight case of CRS, I honestly don't recall this.

In any even, it doesn't matter any more... it's been uninstalled.


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.


In Feisty there is a tab for this, in Dapper there is not.

I guess it's time to fire up the utils to see what else is calling home.




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