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Message-ID: <4B29C5FA.8090909@mnsu.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:47:38 -0600 From: Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@...u.edu> To: Daniel Poelzleithner <poelzi@...lzi.org> CC: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Suggestion: xtime as new inode attribute Daniel Poelzleithner wrote: > The problem: > > If a linux installation gets older and older, more and more programs get > installed over time. Mostly to just test them for a particular problem > and often the deinstallation is forgotten. To find out which packages > are not used for a long time is currently quite impossible. The user may > use program X which will run but not depend on program Y as a subprocess > for example. > > The solution: Perhaps something like the "Debian package Popularity Contest": http://popcon.debian.org/ ... The popularity contest project is an attempt to map the usage of Debian packages. This site publishes the statistics gathered from report sent by users of the popularity-contest package. This package sends every week the list of packages installed and the access time of relevant files to the server via email. Every day the server anonymizes the result and publishes this survey. For more information, read the README and the FAQ. ... -- Jeffrey Hundstad -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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