BSD stats project: what about packages?
Davaeron
davaeron at mail.ru
Wed Sep 6 05:34:28 UTC 2006
Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Firstly, great movement and thanks for doing this. However, I think
> idea of BSD statistics project can be extended over packages as well.
>
> Right now it often comes to frustration to see, i.e., tons of rarely
> used by anyone packages on 4 distribution CDs, but no such a useful
> package as SDL (as least, this is true for 4.11-RELEASE). AFAIK, Debian
> project offers their users some script that collects and submits for
> analysis their list of installed packages, which in turn helps them to
> come with essential packages on CD1, less important but still popular
> ones on CD2, then all the day down to CDn (I've heard they have 7 of
> them. Oh boy).
>
> What do people think about it?
>
I think that's a very good idea.
I join opinion of the author.
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