On 9/5/24 10:36 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
All, Devs,
I was curious about the frequency that packages in extra and core
are installed by Arch users. Is that metadata captured anywhere and is
there any way a user can query it?
What sparked this curiosity is that I follow the package feeds
closely checking for version changes I may have to deal with on a
production box. In doing so I learn about many packages I've never
heard of before. That posed the question of how frequently all
packages are installed by Arch users.
Package use, popularity, whatever you want to call it can provide a
reasonable metric when comparing between two packages that provide the
same feature in determining which to investigate first or install. It
would also give a metric of the impact of a developer retiring or
orphaning packages.
Does any install frequency data such as that exist for packages in
extra and core? Or could it be garnered by whatever data is captured
from the mirror system?
Hi,
As far as I'm aware from a mirrors standpoint there is no way of knowing
the frequency of installment as all packages are mirrored from T0 and
then spread out to other mirrors that are out of our observation. Since
T0 is just accessed by T1s, that is not a useful metric. Even if you'd
get logs from other mirrors, those are just downloaded packages which
you have no idea if they are installed or just downloaded for whatever
reason.
Regards,
Arun
