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Re: Central register of package use

Could also modify dpkg to report each time a package is added, if
networking allows, and an admin has specifically enabled such reporting.

Enabling might be done by creating a magic file in /etc or similar.  The
file should probably contain some kind of identification string (like an
admin name) instead of using an IP address for host identification.

Steve McIntyre wrote:
> 
> 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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