popularity-contest
list the most popular Debian packages
see also :
popcon-largest-unused - cron
Synopsis
popularity-contest
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description
The
popularity-contest command gathers information
about Debian packages installed on the system, and prints
the name of the most recently used executable program in
that package as well as its last-accessed time (atime)
and last-attribute-changed time (ctime) to
stdout.
When aggregated
with the output of popularity-contest from many
other systems, this information is valuable because it can
be used to determine which Debian packages are commonly
installed, used, or installed and never used. This helps
Debian maintainers make decisions such as which packages
should be installed by default on new systems.
The resulting
statistic is available from the project home page
http://popcon.debian.org/.
Normally,
popularity-contest is run from a cron(8)
job, /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest, which
automatically submits the results to Debian package
maintainers (only once a week) according to the settings in
/etc/popularity-contest.conf and
/usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf.
see also
The
popularity-contest FAQ at
/usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ
popcon-largest-unused , cron
Additional
documentation is in
/usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/.
author
Avery Pennarun
<apenwarr[:at:]debian[:dot:]org>.