Re: Please participate in popularity-contest

[Martin Dickopp <martin-deb@zero-based.org>]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:

> [Martin Dickopp]
>> On all my machines, the /usr partition is mounted read-only.  It is
>> my understanding that popcon uses the atime to determine which
>> programs have been run.  What will be the effect if popcon is run on
>> a machine with read-only /usr?
>
> All your installed packages will be reported as installed.  The only
> thing missing is the "used" vote, as the installed packages will
> appear unused.  Still, your submission will affect the package order
> on the CD, because the CD package order is looking at the installation
> count, not the used count.

Good to know.  You've just found a new user. :)

However, in order not to distort the statistics, it would be nice if the
package could be configured to not even look at the atime.

I also don't agree with popcon always invoking the MTA as user "root",
because I think it is a reasonable configuration to /deliberately/
restrict "root" from sending mail to the outside world.  I've send a
patch to fix this to the BTS (Bug#264593).

Martin