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Central register of package use

Prompted by looking at the huge number of available packages we now have,
I've been thinking that some kind of central registry of package use would
be useful. This could be useful in making decisions on the future of some
packages - we can see how much they are actually used and act accordingly. 
There are several packages in the tree that are recommended for being
dropped and others suggested in their place, but in many cases it's not
easy to decide whether or not to drop them because there's no way of
knowing usage.  If nothing else, I'm curious as to how many people are
actually using the packages I'm maintaining. 

What I'm thinking of is something along the lines of a cron job running

#!/bin/bash
HOSTNAME=hostname -f
dpkg --get-selections |grep -ve deinstall -ve purge | \
	mail -s "$HOSTNAME selections" selections@debian.org

and mail to selections@debian.org would be parsed by a simple perl (even
awk) script that could therefore easily keep a current log of how many
times each package is used.

Obviously, this would have to be a voluntary thing (we don't want to annoy
dial-up users, nor paranoid "Big Brother" worriers) but I believe it could
become a useful resource even if only a small proportion of people bother
to use it.

Thoughts and comments?

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