On Thu, 07 May 2020 09:29:36 +0200
Michał Górny wrote:
> 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
On Sat, 09 May 2020 15:22:52 +0200
Gerion Entrup wrote:
> 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.
Presently impossible, as how portage
On Fri, 8 May 2020 09:49:18 +0200
Jaco Kroon wrote:
> So we do need the full list of packages installed, filtered to ::gentoo,
> but there needs to be an indicated whether it's installed because it's
> in @world, as a dep of something in @world (which is possibly not in
> ::gentoo), or is some
>
> I think we shouldn't collect any data unless we have a good plan on how
> we'd be able to use it. In this thread, I'd like to collect ideas
> on what data to collect and how it could realistically be used.
>
5) CFLAGS and possibly related variables
6) "active" version of slotted system
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,
>
Hi,
On 2020/05/08 08:17, Hans de Graaff wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 09:29 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
>>
>> 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
On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 09:29 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
>
>
> 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
Hi,
The previous thread covered a few topics, in this one I'd like to focus
on the data collected. So far people have indicated a few different
kinds of data they'd find useful. However, I don't think enough
attention has been put on explaining why they need the data and how
they'd use it.
I
