The updates firehose

[Bill Nottingham]

Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> > So, this is something I'd *love* to have - some sort of stats on
> > how many people have installed package X; useful for doing checks
> > to see what should or shouldn't be on the DVDs, and so on. I know
> > the mugshot stats exist, but that's not the same.
> 
> And how thrown off is this data by people who install Everything

The number of people who do 'yum install *'....

> or all in a group but never use the data?

... or actively check every box in comps is almost certainly too small
to affect things.

> More important than 'how many people installed 
> package X' is perhaps "how many people installed package X that wasn't on the 
> media"

Right, which is done by gathering how many people installed X, and seeing
if it wasn't on the media. :)

Bill