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 -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: Netscape is not a newsreader, and probably never shall be. -- Tom Christiansen
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