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Here's one I made earlier...

I think it would be good for the community to have some idea of the install base for applications. So I wrote a very quick and dirty way for people to submit their installed package list.

Try it with the following (will clobber anything called pop in /usr/bin):

wget http://www.timwise.co.uk/om/pop/pop.tar.gz tar -C / pop.tar.gz

then submit your package list with

/usr/bin/pop

You can view submissions at http://www.timwise.co.uk/om/pop/submissions/

The code is at http://github.com/timabell/popularity improvements would be welcome, as would inclusion in the various distros. Perhaps if it works out this could be hosted by the various distro servers.

see also http://popcon.debian.org/

First analysed data (only 5 sumbissions so far): http://www.timwise.co.uk/om/pop/summary20100410.txt

Todo

• uniqueid for machine / install / user (optional)
• automated submissions (connectivity detection)
• automated analysis
• inclusion in shr feeds
• prompt whether to participate when shr first run
• move data collection to official server

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