Most popular packages currently missing on the lenny-test DVD
I find it useful to once in a while check our DVDs content with the
list of packages currently being used by Debian Edu installations (as
reported by popcon.skolelinux.org, to make sure we include in our
tasks the packages schools are using. It is important to know that
not all the packages on the DVD is installed (suggested and ignored
task packages are included too), so one need to follow a different
process to make sure the most wanted packages are installed too. :)
Here is the current list of packages used last week by 5% or more of
the population. It is extracted using 'grep notoncd
sort-by-popcon-lenny-test-dvd.txt' and then extracting all packages
with value >= 5 in the second column. (notoncd) mean that the package
is not on the DVD, while (notwanted) mean that it is not listed in our
tasks. The first column is how many machines got the package
installed. I only focus on user applications, thus focus on the
second column.
73.6 63.6 libclone-perl (notoncd) (notwanted)
75.3 63.2 libyaml-perl (notoncd) (notwanted)
72.4 61.5 libregexp-shellish-perl (notoncd) (notwanted)
69.9 50.6 liblocale-maketext-simple-perl (notoncd) (notwanted)
83.7 46.9 gs-esp (notoncd) (notwanted)
66.5 41.4 binfmt-support (notoncd) (notwanted)
78.2 40.2 lvm-common (notoncd) (notwanted)
89.1 38.9 cupsys (notoncd) (notwanted)
82.0 28.9 xutils (notoncd) (notwanted)
72.4 28.0 libfile-type-perl (notoncd) (notwanted)
41.4 26.4 acroread (notoncd) (notwanted)
37.7 26.4 acroread-debian-files (notoncd) (notwanted)
83.3 23.0 cupsys-client (notoncd) (notwanted)
28.5 23.0 sun-java6-bin (notoncd)
84.5 22.2 cupsys-bsd (notoncd) (notwanted)
67.8 20.5 gij-4.1 (notoncd)
40.2 19.7 adept-notifier (notoncd) (notwanted)
30.1 19.7 sun-java5-bin (notoncd) (notwanted)
46.0 16.3 vim (notoncd)
59.4 14.6 esound-clients (notoncd) (notwanted)
19.7 13.8 lm-sensors (notoncd) (notwanted)
26.4 13.4 smartmontools (notoncd)
32.2 13.0 nagios2 (notoncd) (notwanted)
64.4 12.6 mailx (notoncd) (notwanted)
45.6 12.1 debtags (notoncd) (notwanted)
12.6 12.1 apache (notoncd) (notwanted)
61.5 11.3 dcraw (notoncd) (notwanted)
17.6 11.3 libpam-gnome-keyring (notoncd) (notwanted)
17.2 11.3 doc-base (notoncd) (notwanted)
15.9 10.9 libmldbm-perl (notoncd) (notwanted)
15.1 10.9 libuuid-perl (notoncd) (notwanted)
68.6 10.0 libxul0d (notoncd) (notwanted)
64.4 10.0 python-xml (notoncd) (notwanted)
11.3 10.0 gthumb (notoncd) (notwanted)
18.4 9.6 freenx (notoncd)
13.0 9.6 python-notify (notoncd)
10.5 9.6 python-cups (notoncd) (notwanted)
45.2 9.2 php5-cli (notoncd) (notwanted)
28.0 9.2 screen (notoncd) (notwanted)
9.6 9.2 modutils (notoncd) (notwanted)
25.9 8.8 xscreensaver (notoncd) (notwanted)
10.0 8.8 tsclient (notoncd) (notwanted)
21.3 8.4 mc (notoncd) (notwanted)
10.5 8.4 at-spi (notoncd) (notwanted)
10.0 8.4 scim-gtk2-immodule (notoncd)
9.6 8.4 system-config-printer (notoncd) (notwanted)
55.6 7.9 linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (notoncd) (notwanted)
10.9 7.9 network-manager-gnome (notoncd) (notwanted)
9.6 7.9 gnome-mag (notoncd) (notwanted)
8.4 7.9 evolution-exchange (notoncd) (notwanted)
28.5 7.5 sun-java6-jre (notoncd)
24.3 7.5 dialog (notoncd) (notwanted)
10.5 7.5 rhythmbox (notoncd) (notwanted)
10.0 7.5 libgnome-speech7 (notoncd) (notwanted)
9.2 7.5 mousetweaks (notoncd) (notwanted)
78.7 7.1 xutils-dev (notoncd) (notwanted)
12.1 7.1 mysql-server-5.0 (notoncd) (notwanted)
10.5 7.1 bluez-gnome (notoncd) (notwanted)
9.6 7.1 update-notifier (notoncd) (notwanted)
9.2 7.1 gok (notoncd) (notwanted)
8.4 7.1 tomboy (notoncd) (notwanted)
7.1 7.1 locate (notoncd) (notwanted)
60.7 6.7 libnet-snmp-perl (notoncd) (notwanted)
59.4 6.7 xmms (notoncd) (notwanted)
9.2 6.7 update-notifier-common (notoncd) (notwanted)
8.8 6.7 opera (notoncd) (notwanted)
8.4 6.7 gvfs (notoncd) (notwanted)
7.9 6.7 realplayer (notoncd) (notwanted)
7.5 6.7 policycoreutils (notoncd) (notwanted)
6.7 6.7 postfix (notoncd) (notwanted)
44.4 6.3 linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 (notoncd) (notwanted)
12.6 6.3 epiphany-extensions (notoncd) (notwanted)
12.6 6.3 epiphany-gecko (notoncd) (notwanted)
10.5 6.3 kdelibs-bin (notoncd) (notwanted)
8.8 6.3 lynx-cur (notoncd) (notwanted)
7.9 6.3 gnome-spell (notoncd) (notwanted)
40.2 5.9 adept-updater (notoncd) (notwanted)
37.2 5.9 rpm (notoncd) (notwanted)
17.2 5.9 deborphan (notoncd) (notwanted)
13.0 5.9 gnome-app-install (notoncd)
13.0 5.9 htop (notoncd) (notwanted)
6.7 5.9 gcc-4.2 (notoncd) (notwanted)
74.9 5.4 libpod-simple-perl (notoncd) (notwanted)
29.3 5.4 libstdc++6-4.1-dev (notoncd) (notwanted)
15.5 5.4 hddtemp (notoncd) (notwanted)
13.0 5.4 evolution-plugins (notoncd) (notwanted)
11.3 5.4 libx11-protocol-perl (notoncd) (notwanted)
10.5 5.4 gnumeric (notoncd) (notwanted)
6.7 5.4 bug-buddy (notoncd) (notwanted)
6.7 5.4 gnome-pilot (notoncd) (notwanted)
6.7 5.4 gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad (notoncd) (notwanted)
6.3 5.4 openoffice.org-debian-menus (notoncd) (notwanted)
6.3 5.4 openoffice.org-ure (notoncd) (notwanted)
5.9 5.4 rkhunter (notoncd) (notwanted)
22.2 5.0 mkisofs (notoncd) (notwanted)
12.1 5.0 cmt (notoncd) (notwanted)
10.0 5.0 gaim (notoncd) (notwanted)
8.8 5.0 transmission-gtk (notoncd) (notwanted)
7.1 5.0 bluez-audio (notoncd) (notwanted)
6.7 5.0 python2.5-dev (notoncd) (notwanted)
6.3 5.0 kdebase-runtime (notoncd) (notwanted)
5.0 5.0 dlocate (notoncd) (notwanted)
5.0 5.0 lisa (notoncd) (notwanted)
Most of these packages are obsolete (changed name since Etch). PDF
viewer (acroread) and Java implementation (sun-java6-bin) continue to
be the most popular non-free package used by Debian Edu machines. I
wish the free PDF viewers would soon be enough to replace acroread.
OpenJDK will replace the non-free Java in the future, so that issue
should be solved how. dcraw is a image processing tool. Perhaps we
should include it? freenx continue to be popular. I really wish
someone would succeed in getting it into Debian. cmt is a collection
of music related plugins. Perhaps something to add to the music task?
Several gnome tools seem to be used. I guess someone install the
Gnome desktop to replace the KDE one on their installations. I
suspect some of these should be added to the desktop-gnome task, but
leave that to someone using Gnome. Also, several command line tools
are listed (screen, deborphan, hddtemp, rkhunter, htop). Perhaps we
should add some of them to our toolbox?
I'm going to add these (if you know more about the packages, please
advice if Ignore should be increased to suggest or recommend):
common:
Recommend: deborphan, hddtemp, htop
Ignore: screen, rkhunter
music:
Ignore: cmt
graphics:
Ignore: dcraw
Note that Only Depends and Recommends are installed by default, while
Suggests are included on the DVD. Some of the Ignored packages make
it to the DVD too. I use Ignored packages mostly to put them on our
radar to see if we want to include them.
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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