Bug#632438: popularity-contest: a way to exclude certain packages

2020-09-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 11:21:17AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Bill Allombert] > > Dear Kentaro, > > Could you explain why you want to exclude some package ? > > I am concerned this will squew the statistic, if used > > indiscriminately. > > The use case was explained by Paul Wise in the

Bug#632438: popularity-contest: a way to exclude certain packages

2020-09-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Bill Allombert] > Dear Kentaro, > Could you explain why you want to exclude some package ? > I am concerned this will squew the statistic, if used > indiscriminately. The use case was explained by Paul Wise in the opening of this issue. > Instead I would suggest to add a new dpkg control field

Bug#632438: popularity-contest: a way to exclude certain packages

2011-07-02 Thread Paul Wise
Package: popularity-contest Severity: wishlist It would be nice if I could configure popularity-contest to ignore certain packages when collecting data. I would like to use meta-packages to manage the list of installed packages on my machines, but I don't want to leak the names of those packages