Perhaps Debian's popularity contest would help with this. It tracks
which programs one runs, and how frequently.
Michael David Crawford, Baritone
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One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light.
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Ken Cunningham
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I’m always amazed by the things the ports in MacPorts can do that I never
> imagined.
>
> With so many ports, it can sometimes be difficult to stumble across the real
> gems, or even to realize just what a certain port can help you do. I’m sure
> even after 10 years of using MacPorts I’ve barely scratched the surface.
>
> Finding out what ports are downloaded the most would be interesting. The
> basic utility building blocks would be heavily used, of course, but more the
> final-product type of ports would be useful.
>
> Also, some kind of rating system, like many sites have for things, might
> lead people to the good stuff.
>
> Even a way to see what ports are getting updated and when they were last
> updated is nice — shame in a way that line is being stripped out of the
> portfiles now. Installing a port that was last modified in 2005 is not
> likely to be rewarding...
>
> Something like the Macintosh Garden website <http://macintoshgarden.org>
> would be really neat for people to pore through. Don’t know if any of you
> have been to that site / use that site / love or hate that site — but it’s
> been up for years, and has a fairly easy-to-use way of browsing their
> contents.
>
> My Ubuntu box has a downloadable software browser with screenshots and more
> interesting details…
>
> It might be hard for people to get excited about things if they have no idea
> how they work or what they are ….
>
> I’m sure you must have all discussed this at great length in the past.
>
>
> Ken
