BSD stats project: what about packages?

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

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