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Re: Package Usage Metric



On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 02:18:03PM -0400, Matt P. wrote:
> 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...

popularity-contest does something similar, albeit over a longer
timescale (based on access times of files).

HTH

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Karl E. Jørgensen
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