Subject: Re: automatic package statistics
To: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/14/1999 01:19:14
On 14 Oct 1999, Julian Assange wrote:
> > I think going back to the gold old send-pr for problems and a nice "hi, I
> > got it" mail to tech-pkg and/or some port lists should be enough for now.
> 
> What does this mean?

s/gold/good old/ - manual report of installation :)


> > You didn't mention what you wanted to do with information gained that way,
> > btw.
> > 
> > 
> > - Hubert
> 
> We can automatically produce a "top 40" matrix of 
> 
>         packages
>         packages vs architectures
>         packages vs os revision levels
>         number of netbsd users vs architectures
>         broken packages vs above
>         binaries packages vs above etc
> 
> We can (amazingly) boot strap the entire thing in the same way pkg_add
> is currently bootstrapped.
> 
> see www.debian.org for a primitive attempt at this
> 

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