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LibreOffice and OpenOffice clash over user numbers (OStatic)

LibreOffice and OpenOffice clash over user numbers (OStatic)

Posted Nov 3, 2012 5:24 UTC (Sat) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
In reply to: LibreOffice and OpenOffice clash over user numbers (OStatic) by MarkVandenBorre
Parent article: LibreOffice and OpenOffice clash over user numbers (OStatic)

popcon does not track activity, just installation - so it's a bad choice for software that comes pre-installed, as I suspect many Linux LO installations will be.


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LibreOffice and OpenOffice clash over user numbers (OStatic)

Posted Nov 3, 2012 6:45 UTC (Sat) by naoliv (subscriber, #21066) [Link]

See where it reads "vote is the number of people who use this package regularly":

http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=libreoffice-common

LibreOffice and OpenOffice clash over user numbers (OStatic)

Posted Nov 3, 2012 11:34 UTC (Sat) by engla (guest, #47454) [Link]

popcon uses atime to track if packages are "used".

LibreOffice and OpenOffice clash over user numbers (OStatic)

Posted Nov 3, 2012 16:32 UTC (Sat) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093) [Link]

...but everyone uses noatime now.

LibreOffice and OpenOffice clash over user numbers (OStatic)

Posted Nov 3, 2012 17:11 UTC (Sat) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

Well, relatime, though that's bad enough - that'd mean it'd detect only the first use of a package per update.

LibreOffice and OpenOffice clash over user numbers (OStatic)

Posted Nov 3, 2012 20:31 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

relatime updates at least once per boot (I thought it would update daily or something like that as well)

so it would be the most recent use per boot, not the first use per upgrade

LibreOffice and OpenOffice clash over user numbers (OStatic)

Posted Nov 3, 2012 20:53 UTC (Sat) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

It'll update if there's more than 24 hours between the current time and the previous atime value.

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