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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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