Re: Histogram of ages of packages incrementally installed over 15 years

["John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" <johnandsara2@cox.net>]

Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> Yes, it's online at 
>
>     http://picpaste.com/pics/4a80b4cedb82b5088f3b74f9c4bce2b2.1310243030.png
>
> If a pastebin isn't good enough, I gave everyone
> the right to copy it, so it's OK to post it online
> somewhere else.
>
> Thanks,
> Kingsley
>
> PS: Please note that while I showed that combining
> packages of widely varying ages is possible, it
> isn't always easy.
>
> On 07/09/11 10:17, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > Quoting Kingsley G. Morse Jr. (kingsley@loaner.com):
> > > I thought you might be interested in the attached
> > > histogram.
> > >
> > > It's my shrine to the genius of debian's package management.
> > Do you have this somewhere online? The Debian Publicity team could be
> > interested in adding a reference to it in a further Debian news
> > publication.

it's a great example of what can be done - and what to watch out for - thanks for posting I enjoyed