NAME
popularity-contest - list the most popular Debian packages
SYNOPSIS
popularity-contest
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
R http://popcon.debian.org/ .
Normally,
popularity-contest
is run from a
cron(8)
job,
R /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest ,
which automatically submits the results to Debian package maintainers
according to the settings in
R /etc/popularity-contest.conf
and
R /usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf .
SEE ALSO
Additional documentation is in
R /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/ .
AUTHOR
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@debian.org>.
