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

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