cross-platform virus

[Tommy Trussell]

On 4/12/06, Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 13:13, Carsten Lange wrote:
> > Am 12.04.2006, 12:33 Uhr, schrieb Alan McKinnon
> <alan at linuxholdings.co.za>:
> > I don't know if it has been mentioned in this long and multi-topic
> > thread with a now very confusing name but there is a Debian package
> > which reports installed and recently used programs back to the
> > maintainers. Can't remember it's name so someone else should step
> > in. This is a valid method to plan future distributions. The
> > package is not installed by a base install but must be chosen on
> > your own.
>
> I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I read that :-)
>
> I've done market research in my time and I would have given my eye
> teeth for data like that. 10 out of 10 to whoever thought to include
> it.

It's called popularity-contest -- unfortunately the Debian package
requires a functioning mail system (that could send the appropriate
messages to the outside world) and I never wanted to set that up for a
desktop machine. I believe one of the enhancement requests at one time
was to upgrade it to send its data via another transport, such as
http. Oh I see that bug was addressed in Warty (Bug 8323 in
launchpad.net)