From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Aug 11 4: 8:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF4137B400 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 04:08:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [208.210.80.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A816643E70 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 04:08:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from blues.jpj.net (localhost.jpj.net [127.0.0.1]) by blues.jpj.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7BB7pot019503; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 07:07:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g7BB7pO0019500; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 07:07:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: blues.jpj.net: trevor owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 07:07:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson To: Ross Lippert Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/41106: FreeBSD Handbook lacks "Desktop Applications" chapter. In-Reply-To: <200208101409.HAA25995@eskimo.com> Message-ID: <20020811070300.K16333-100000@blues.jpj.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ross Lippert wrote: > 2) Collect rudimentary stats on comments when in browse mode. That is, > if I do a search on 'cd player' and I get a list of results, next to the > name for each result, it would be nice to know what the counts are of each > KIND of comment. Again, this is for the trawler who just wants to get a > rough idea of how much use other people are making of the port. I'm not > excited about actual rating systems, but seeing that this port has 7 HOWTO's > and 10 COOL TRICK's might make me look at it before looking at a port with > none...Even total comment count is a sign of user activity (though not the > best one). Debian has a package that, when installed, sends out a list of all the installed packages on that computer. For each package, the number of computers it is installed on is published at . -- Trevor "more popular than sox, maybe" Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message