package popularity ratings

[Michael DeHaan]

seth vidal wrote:
> Hi,
>  I got this bug assigned to yum the other day:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446836
>
> it's not really a yum item, yet, b/c yum can really only USE the data,
> not generate it.
>
> However, I don't know where it should go. Is anyone working on this sort
> of thing?
>
> -sv
>
>
>
>   
"

Very similar to ubuntu's popularity meter,
but better.
"


Cough, *Debian*, cough.

I'd be interested in this too.   Smolt has opt-in ways to send stats, could we hijack that submission infrastructure to also do software inventory?

If so, the code seems like it would be pretty simple.

We'd probably want that to be /another/ opt in switch since it's slightly different info?

--Michael