Miles Bader wrote: > Why not split on the first and last characters concatenated? Since most > packages have either `common' suffix or a common prefix, but not both, > this might yield nice numbers... (but I don't have a debian system handy > to test my theory). 220 lv 152 ll 69 l1 59 l0 52 lg 43 gs 42 pl 41 l2 38 xe 36 xs With 683 buckets used. This does seem to have the best stats so far.. -- see shy jo