Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2020, 09:29:36 CEST schrieb Michał Górny: > I'm going to start with the data and uses I can think of. Please reply > with other things you can think of. > > > 1) list of selected packages (@world) > > We would use this to determine the popularity of individual packages, > plus by scanning their dependencies we would be able to make combined > statistics for direct usage + dependencies of other selected packages. > This would allow us to judge which packages need more of our attention. > > For example, as we port Python packages to Python 3.8 the packages with > more declared users would be ported first.
You may want to collect packages installed per sets, too. I mainly do what Hans mentioned in his mail to this thread but with sets. For example I have a KDE-PIM set that installs only my needed subset of the KDE PIM suite. (I also use this as common workaround for yet missing runtime dependencies / suggestions made by pkg_postinst.) Retrieval of this packages would be straight forward: Look at world_sets and collect all packages that are installed by the set. > 2) USE flags on installed packages (disabled/default/enabled) > > This would allow us to determine which flags users are most likely to > actually rely on. This could determine tested flag combinations, > defaults, and required level of support for individual flags. > > For example, if OCaml bindings on some package are broken and require > a lot of work, I would find useful to know how likely it is that anyone > is using it. Or if a lot of people are enabling 'frobnicate' flag, > I could consider employing USE defaults. I'm not sure, if Portage is capable of this, but a distinction in USE flags needed to fulfil some dependency of another package and USE flags actively activated by the user could be useful. Dependency use flags should be treated with a higher priority in my opinion, since they enable the installation of another package (tree), while use flags that enable a certain feature that is not used elsewhere are more "nice to have". Best Gerion
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