On 2019-07-01, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 01:14:07PM -0000, Curt wrote: >>The second triad of NUMBER % RANK columns corresponds to the number of people >>using the package regularly* and by that metric ecryptfs-utils beats encfs by >>a >>relative long shot (1066 to 630, 0.58% to 0.34%). > > "relative" to what? That's what the percentage (as oppose to absolute > numbers)
I understood those statistics to mean that 1066 people use ecryptfs-utils regularly and 630 use encfs regularly (giving ecryptfs-utils more regular users than encfs by a relatively large margin---nearly the double). The 1.14%/>1% metric you mentioned to illustrate your point seemed to me therefore to be a little misleading. > gives you, the relative comparison with all packages. The difference in that > frame of reference is virtually noise. > -- “Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.” – Thomas Pynchon
