[Ralf] > As for skolelinux where hundreds of pupils per day access the > softwrae installed on the terminal server, a tool that logs, which > app was accessed how often (maybe last accession date, too), could > help deciding what app could be replaced. What do you think of this > idea?
In addition to using accounting to check which packages are being used (which I believe have questionable privacy issues), there is also the popularity-contest package reporting which package was used the last week. The log is available in /var/log/popularity-contest*, and it might be useful to use it to detect which packages are unused. But one need to take into account that it do not work 100%, so one can not just remove all unused packages. The version in Sarge and Sid also contain the popcon-largest-unused script, reporting good candidates for removal. :)
