Package Usage Metric

["Matt P." <mpaindav@toad.net>]

In the same line as my previous posting, I was wondering if there is
such a thing as a measure of how much a package is used. E.g. the kernel
is used at 100%, and things you don't use are at 0%. But then what
happens to those packages in between.

I guess the answer depends on the ability to say, at any point in time:
"Here is the list of currently used packages"

Can this currently be done?

You would probably have a daemon running, taking as input the list of
processes running, then looking up what package the program belongs to,
adding all the packages that it depends on.

Interesting statistics...

Matt