[aur-general] pkgstats and unused [community] packages

[Brieuc Roblin]

On 25 October 2010 16:13, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:13:18 +0100, Brieuc ROBLIN
> <brieuc.roblin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 25 October 2010 15:06, Florian Pritz <bluewind at server-speed.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 25.10.2010 12:35, Christopher Brannon wrote:
> >> > I've been polling <https://archlinux.de/?page=PackageStatistics>
> >> > regularly for several weeks, and I've noticed that roughly 50% of the
> >> > packages in [community] are not installed by anyone.
> >>
> >> The page doesn't show the whole database.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net<bluewind%7D at server-speed.net>
> <bluewind%7D at server-speed.net <bluewind%257D at server-speed.net>>
> >>
> >>
> > Is there a way to get the whole database ? Would be cool if we could play
> > with the raw statistics from pkgstat ;)
>
> I can't tell when it'll be done but I am working on a new
> implementation. I plan to provide the raw data in different formats
> (plain text, csv and json).
>
> The current page only displays packages with >= 1% usage. So 50% of
> community is used by less than 1%.
>
> --
> Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre<https://users.archlinux.de/%7Epierre>
>
That would be great. if you need any help to get things done, feel free to
ask ;)