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.\" Hey, Emacs! This is an -*- nroff -*- source file.
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.\"
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.\"
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.TH POPULARITY-CONTEST 8 "November 2001" "Debian/GNU Linux"
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.SH NAME
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popularity-contest \- list the most popular Debian packages
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B popularity-contest
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B popularity-contest
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command gathers information about Debian packages installed on the system,
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and prints the name of the most recently used executable program in that
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package as well as its last-accessed time (atime) and last-attribute-changed
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time (ctime) to stdout.
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.PP
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When aggregated with the output of
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.B popularity-contest
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from many other systems, this information is valuable because it can be used
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to determine which Debian packages are commonly installed, used, or
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installed and never used. This helps Debian maintainers make decisions such
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as which packages should be installed by default on new systems.
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.PP
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Normally,
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.B popularity-contest
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is run from a
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.BR cron (8)
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job,
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.BR /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest ,
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which automatically emails the results to Debian package maintainers
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according to the settings in
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.BR /etc/popularity-contest.conf .
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.SH SEE ALSO
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Additional documentation is in
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.BR /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/
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.SH AUTHOR
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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@debian.org>.
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