On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Isn't any package popularity rating going to be hugely skewed such that >> the 'default install set' packages are basically always rated top, making >> rankings of dubious value > > I personally see zero value in a flat popularity rating. > I would see more value if we could find a way to correlate users such > that I could datamine the application preferences of people who were > already running systems similar to mine. > > For example, XFCE users as a breed might prefer certain applications > which are not 'popular' in the general userbase, but were immensely > popular inside the XFCE subculture. Those shared preferences would > never show up in a flat popularity rating..a rating destined to be > dominated by FVWM2 users...so such a flat rating would never really be > what XFCE users would find value in. > They would be better suited with: People who installed Thunar also installed ... bsd-games and fortune_mod > -jef"Did i mention that I hate social networking"spaleta > Stephen "Amazon is our salvation..." Smoogen -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
