No it can't. The goal of popularity-contest not only collect what packages are installed, but also determine what packages were recently used. In order to do so, It checks what files are currently open and scans last access time for files belonging to installed packages.
Probably, you may ask an option to disable collection of usage statistics, but it probably makes popcon results less usable. Such request should be forwarded to upstream developers in debain BTS, I think. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493852 Title: popularity-contest will stat() every file installed file or ~80k files on my system which grinds things to a halt To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/popularity-contest/+bug/493852/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
