[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] pkgstats: first results

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Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> 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.
> 

Just a warning, generalizing based on these numbers (and on any numbers in fact) is very dangerous.

Glenn