On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 06:15:39PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 10:46:13PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > It would be nice to have some kind of package popularity rating. I'm not > sure how to do that well, but non-intrusively. The FTP statistics might be > one way, but I don't know whether it gives an accurate impression of which > packages people like, or just which ones are installed on most systems by > default. > > Hey, here's an idea: why not compare the last-access times of executable > binaries in each package? The ones which have been most recently accessed > are the ones which are most popular. The results wouldn't be very useful > for a single box, but over a large number of them, it might be statistically > significant. > > We could have a Debian package with a cron job that e-mails a priority list > somewhere every night or every week... we would just need to ensure privacy > and validity of the results, somehow. Of course, this would have to be > completely optional for each user. > > To get an idea of how long it would take to run, try this command: > > ls -lu $(grep -h /bin/ /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list) | gzip -c >/dev/null > > and multiply the run time by two or three, ignoring all error output :) > It's pretty fast, anyway. > > Hmm, I'm getting more and more interested by this... what does everyone > think? the idea is ok. make you a package? Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Certified Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux »Unix IS user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !«
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