James Gregory wrote: > something I'd really like to see in mandrake (well, in linux) is a > daemon that monitors how frequently I use the software on my computer. > It would need patches in glibc probably, and it would need to be > optional, but it has two really big advantages: > > 1. People like me who are always installing new stuff, using it for a > week and then forgetting about it have a way to easily find stuff to > delete. The package management system is great for installing, but I > just don't know where my hard disk space goes.
For this, see rpmstats (in contrib IIRC). > > 2. It would (again, optionally) give users a really effective way to say > which software should be in mandrake -- an option (set at install time) > to send this information to mandrake each time urpmi runs would mean > that not only would people be able to vote on which software they like > the best, but which software they're actually *using* the most. In some > sense at least, this is the software that should be included with > mandrake. > Deno is (hopefully) working on something like this. > But microsoft may have a patent on the idea, I don't know. > They can't, since Debian has it in popularity-contest. Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
