Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:22:45 -0500 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: michael johnson <ahze@ahze.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, scrappy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD stats project: what about packages? Message-ID: <20060905192245.GC8865@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <b2203fed0609050953p3cbef25mc3807827d9da98ff@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060905163409.GA63018@FreeBSD.org> <b2203fed0609050953p3cbef25mc3807827d9da98ff@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:53:03PM -0400, michael johnson wrote: > freshports.org could also give you a good idea of whats popular. It does -- of the sample population of people that know about it. (fwiw, it also has a lot of stale entries, as people don't keep their lists up to date.) Of course, the _interesting_ question to ask is "what ports are unused by anybody", which neither of these sampling technologies will answer, unfortunately. mcl
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