Hi Phil,
Am 13.05.2009 um 18:59 schrieb Philip Brown:
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 07:13:53PM +0200, Peter Bonivart wrote:
Well, to identify which packages should go into which tier we could
use another suggested topic of mine - download stats.
Those stats might be skewed in terms of which packages get frequently
updated, not neccessarily in terms of importance.
If you take statistics per-file instead of per-package you would
get proper statistics.
Nonetheless I would also like to see the download values. Sunfreeware
has a policy that all mirrors must provide download statistics
upstream for this reason.
And then there is a relative definition of "importance".
Does it mean "popular", or does it mean "critical to other programs"?
Or some combination of both?
As far as "importance" goes, I think a fairly basic and concrete
measure
would be, the number of dependants that a package has.
eg: gtk2 has around 100. Thus, it is incontrovertibly an
"important package" ;-)
Sure. That's why William and I repackaged it. If now someone would
test it that would be even better ;-)
Best regards
-- Dago
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