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Re: Central register of package use

>> 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
>
>Good idea, although it would be best to know the versions of each package
>in use.

Agreed, I'm working on something to do this atm. Once written, this could
also be useful in the testing setup currebtly being discussed- we can
check if new versions of packages are being used before dumping them into
stable. 

>Additionally, this functionality for each individual Debian system should
>be in a separate package.  And it should be very clear that the package is
>NOT required.  I'd suggest putting it in the "Extra" section.  And explain
>to the user very clearly what is going on.  We want to avoid at all costs
>any problem with people complaining about people spying on systems and/or
>people complaining about unknown mails.

Agreed, yes. This was exactly my plan. Once I have a working script
written, I'll test it and see about writing the script to go on the
receiving end and parse the input. Once it all works, the idea is to make
a package consisting purely of a cron entry and documentation.

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