BSD stats project: what about packages?

[Mark Linimon]

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