On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:07:39AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > Yes. It looks at the atime stamps for stuff that's been run in the > past 30 days; frequency doesn't matter. Also it reports on stuff > that's installed, regardless of usage. > > Current results: of approximately 30000 installations currently > sending popularity-contest results, about 1000 have shorewall > installed and about 600 are using it regularly. A few well-known > packages with similar popularity (in the 500-700 bracket): valgrind, > lprng, timidity, fvwm, dovecot. > I think that the shorewall numbers (in terms of recently used vs. total installed) can be a bit deceiving. I would wager that shorewall is more often installed on servers, which are more likely to be on 24/7. If they get to uptimes of 30+ days (which I would wager happens often), then shorewall starts showing up as installed but not recently used. I would consider that a good thing :-)
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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