Hi all, I think you all are interested in the result of Allan's crazy idea to get some stats about package usage. I spent some/alot time this weekend to present you some stats. At first: I played a bit with gettext and some usefull pages are available in German and English (depends on your browser's config): * http://www.archlinux.de/?page=ArchitectureDifferences * http://www.archlinux.de/?page=MirrorStatus * http://www.archlinux.de/?page=PackageStatistics (That's the one; be warnded: atm it loads > 2MB of pure HTML!) For those who want to play with some sql queries, I have uploaded a (reduced) db-snapshot: http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/tmp/pkgdb-stripped.sql.gz Before announcing this we should discuss the results and talk about what we learn about them. I'll make a start: (topdown) * extra and community have similar size * more than 1200 submissions since friday. Thanks! :-) * installation size varies from 126 to amazing 2800 * 1/4 use x86_64 * Nearly 70% of packages are from extra. Nice. * Only 7% are installed from community and a similar amount is in no official repo (Might be a sign that there is something wrong with priorities in [community]) * About 2% from extra and 3% from community aren't used by anybody! The unused kde-l10n pacakges are no problem; I create them automatically * Nearly 20% of all users (that includes 3/4 i686) use lib32 packages. * There are lots of rarly used packages in all repos * kdemod-kdelibs is installed by 14,26 % while kdelibs fomr [extra] is installed by 34,05 %. Maybe splitting support in makepkg and devtools should get a higher priority ...that should do it for a start. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de