On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:16:06AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > 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%). acroread is no longer distributable (or distributed), so should probably be excluded from any analysis. Also, are any of the java packages actually distributed by Debian? I thought there were legal issues that prevented even non-free distribution (though j2re/sdk packages are available elsewhere). > * In main, gs has 42%, xpdf-reader 26%, gv 20%. tar was at 87% and > unzip at 49%. Of course, tar and unzip are no substitute for unrar. Interesting statistics. Thanks for doing this, John. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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