Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:45:06 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, michael johnson <ahze@ahze.net>, scrappy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD stats project: what about packages? Message-ID: <20060905194506.GA97710@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060905192245.GC8865@soaustin.net> References: <20060905163409.GA63018@FreeBSD.org> <b2203fed0609050953p3cbef25mc3807827d9da98ff@mail.gmail.com> <20060905192245.GC8865@soaustin.net>
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:22:45PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > 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. I think that having a port that is used by one (or even zero, but it should not be broken/forbidden/etc.) person is probably OK. What's not OK is when such ports find their way into release CDs, while others (like SDL) do not. ./danfe
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