Re: Ideas from Usenix

To: stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk, Paul.Russell@rustcorp.com.au, srivasta@debian.org
Subject: Re: Ideas from Usenix
From: "James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 20:04:29 -0400 (EWT)
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.95.980716110251.351H-100000@virgo.software.plasmon> (message from Steve McIntyre on Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:42:49 +0100 (BST))
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Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

>#1: Tip of the day
...
>A clever thing to do here is also tune the output of the program so that
>the more commonly-used packages are the ones that will produce help nost
>often, say by checking the atime of a specified file owned by each
>package. 

We could scan .bash_history to get per-user statistics on program use.

                                  - Jim Van Zandt


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