02-16-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by
alexscript
If you speak about Linux distro i think make more sense use stable distro instead at solution as Gentoo more focused on performance and last packages.
Not true. Its focus is flexibility. You get
a choice of what you want to install at a very fundamental level. The install guide lets you pick which cron you want for instance; most other distros, you wouldn't even
know which cron you had. You'd just call it 'cron'.
Quote:
Indirectly using last packages means, potentially, more security problem, instead of using a little old package but with fix.
Add security patch to an old version -- voila, old version has now become a new version!
Users
can install bleeding-edge everything with ludicrous compile options, which sometimes
gives it a bad name, but nothing forces them to use it in such a silly fashion.
Last edited by Corona688; 02-16-2012 at 01:14 PM..
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popularity-contest
POPULARITY-CONTEST(8) POPULARITY-CONTEST(8)
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 https://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-con-
test/default.conf.
SEE ALSO
The popularity-contest FAQ at /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ popcon-largest-unused(8), cron(8)
Additional documentation is in /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/.
AUTHOR
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@debian.org>.
Debian/GNU Linux November 2001 POPULARITY-CONTEST(8)