Hello, I thought it interesting to find out just how much non-free is used. I wrote up a quick Python script that analyzes the latest popularity-contest results. Any cavets that apply to popcon results will, of course, apply this this analysis.
Below you will see some selected output from the analyzer. It includes a few packages in main for comparison, then all packages in non-free. The numbers reported are in percents, not absolute users. This, I think, makes it easier to see what is going on. Also, the output is sorted by "vote". The fields are (per apenwarr's definition): * Vote: Number of people that use the package regularly. * Old: Number of people with it installed but not used regularly * Recent: Upgraded too recently for stats to be valid * Unknown: No files in the package were used in stats collection >From the data, we can see that: * The 5 most popular packages in non-free are acroread (18% regular use), unrar (14%), j2re1.4 (11%), and rar (10%). * In main, gs has 42%, xpdf-reader 26%, gv 20%. tar was at 87% and unzip at 49%. * kaffe was at 4%, gcj and gij at 2%, and jikes at 4%. (These are not listed below because the fell beneath the top non-free package and it was easier to omit all main packages after that point.) * Almost half of the packages in non-free installed on people's systems are never (or rarely) used. Here is the output: Package Name Section Vote Old Rcnt Unkn Totl base-files base 95 1 2 0 99 bash base 95 2 1 0 99 gzip base 95 3 0 0 99 dpkg base 95 0 3 0 99 libc6 base 93 0 5 0 99 tar base 87 11 1 0 99 apt base 78 7 13 0 99 make devel 60 18 18 0 97 apache web 52 8 3 0 65 unzip utils 49 31 3 0 84 libncursesw5 libs 43 6 16 0 67 gs text 42 15 15 0 73 mozilla-browser web 41 14 5 0 61 lynx web 33 27 3 0 65 gsfonts text 31 36 10 6 85 emacs21 editors 29 4 1 0 35 xpdf-reader text 26 15 7 0 48 spamassassin mail 25 4 10 0 40 openoffice.org editors 25 7 9 0 42 netpbm graphics 22 33 16 0 72 gv text 20 13 23 0 58 acroread non-free/text 18 9 0 0 28 unrar non-free/utils 14 11 12 0 39 j2re1.4 non-free/libs 11 5 1 0 18 rar non-free/utils 10 17 1 0 28 lha non-free/utils 8 17 2 0 27 mpg123 non-free/sound 6 16 1 0 24 j2sdk1.4 non-free/devel 5 7 1 0 14 j2re1.3 non-free/libs 5 4 0 0 10 graphviz non-free/graphics 4 10 0 0 16 gs-aladdin non-free/text 4 1 1 0 7 netpbm-nonfree non-free/graphics 4 16 0 0 21 latex2html non-free/tex 4 9 14 0 29 zoo non-free/utils 4 9 0 0 14 distributed-net non-free/misc 3 0 0 0 4 j2sdk1.3 non-free/devel 3 4 0 0 7 xanim non-free/graphics 3 13 0 0 16 xsnow non-free/x11 2 4 0 0 7 xearth non-free/games 2 7 0 0 10 jdk1.1 non-free/devel 2 5 0 0 8 ncompress non-free/utils 2 5 1 0 9 navigator-smotif-477 non-free/web 1 3 0 0 5 mpg123-esd non-free/sound 1 3 0 0 5 netperf non-free/net 1 0 0 0 2 xmame non-free/games 1 4 0 0 6 mpg123-oss-3dnow non-free/sound 1 0 0 0 2 ucbmpeg-play non-free/graphics 1 5 0 0 6 agrep non-free/text 1 2 0 0 4 xmame-x non-free/games 1 3 0 0 5 snes9x-x non-free/games 1 3 0 0 5 pgplot5 non-free/math 1 2 0 0 3 rsynth non-free/sound 1 1 0 0 3 jre1.1 non-free/devel 1 3 0 0 4 ckermit non-free/comm 1 4 0 0 5 jpeg2ps non-free/graphics 1 3 0 0 5 libmotif3 non-free/libs 1 2 0 2 6 angband non-free/games 1 1 0 0 2 povray non-free/graphics 1 6 0 0 7 album non-free/web 1 1 0 0 3 crafty non-free/games 1 1 2 0 4 satan non-free/admin 0 1 0 0 2 giflib3g 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non-free/utils 0 0 0 0 0 libapache-mod-fastcgi non-free/web 0 0 0 3 3 php4-dbase non-free/web 0 0 0 1 1 amoeba-data non-free/x11 0 0 0 2 2 motif-clients non-free/x11 0 0 0 0 0 nvidia-kernel-source non-free/x11 0 0 0 11 11 t1-xfree86-nonfree non-free/x11 0 0 0 9 9 ttf-kochi-gothic-naga10 non-free/x11 0 0 0 2 2 ttf-kochi-mincho-naga10 non-free/x11 0 0 0 1 1 ttf-larabie-deco non-free/x11 0 0 0 7 7 ttf-larabie-straight non-free/x11 0 0 0 8 8 ttf-larabie-uncommon non-free/x11 0 0 0 6 6 ttf-xfree86-nonfree non-free/x11 0 0 0 12 12 ttf-xfree86-nonfree-syriac non-free/x11 0 0 0 1 1 xfonts-naga10 non-free/x11 0 0 0 1 1 146 packages (48%) out of 301 in non-free had 0 for vote. You may obtain that script by using tla. The repository is [EMAIL PROTECTED] on http://arch.debian.org/arch/private/jgoerzen/debian. Get the tree popconn-analyze--head--1.0.
