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It's a tiny bit more than that: popcon weekly reports which packages have been used that week based on their atime. atime, ctime and filename are reported (the times are truncated to a multiple of twelve hours).

See https://popcon.debian.org/FAQ (thanks to toastal for the link).



Which is still a far cry from "opts you in by default (!!!), and collects every time (!) you open the program."


Oh yes I agree completely. When I said "a tiny bit more", I meant it literally: it's a bit more, but only a very tiny bit.


Wait people still leave atime enabled?


I suppose many people use relatime, which is good enough for popcon I think.

Edit: Debian uses relatime by default. I don't know about other distributions.




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