On 11/1/05, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derek Broughton wrote: > > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > >>Popularity Contest would be even better if it didn't list 'required' > >>and 'standard' pacakges to judge true popularity. How does one call > >>'dpkg' or 'apt' popular when one doesn't really have a choice --- it's > >>a dedian system after all. > > > > > > I doubt it really makes a difference. All the 'required' packages are going > > to be supported regardless of their ranking in "Popularity Contest", but it > > would make for a more useful list of they just left the required packages > > off it. > > Except... some required packages can be admired, e.g. gcc + c++ > Or the kernel.
Yeah.. that and some other larger-than-life stuff like 'coreutils' and 'bash'.
