On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 8:33 AM, <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, August 25, 2017 06:59:29 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Friday, August 25, 2017 01:17:10 AM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> > To look at a few of the famous packages in this, one has to either >> > scroll up or pipe the output to head. With the current sorting method, >> > you can keep eyes closer to the command line and still get all the >> > important information. >> >> I'm not the op, but I'd just like to say: good thinking! > > Oh, on looking again, I remembered a question--what do those numbers > represent? When I first saw the list, in order with the higher numbers > first, I > thought maybe the numbers represented something like number of downloads, but, > once I knew the order was in inverse order, I realized that was not the case. > > What do those numbers represent / where do they come from? >
They are the ranks of the packages based on their popularity [1]. The data is downloaded from http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst and cached into ~/.cache/popsort/by_inst [2]. The cool thing with the script is that it automatically updates the cache file if it is more than a day old. [1] The statistics are gathered from report sent by users of the popularity-contest package. To participate in this, install the popularity-contest package. Currently it receives around 200,000 submissions. [2] - Actually, the path is determined by using fname = os.path.join( xdg.BaseDirectory.xdg_cache_home, 'popsort', 'by_inst') but since xdg.BaseDirectory.xdg_cache_home is set to ~/.cache by default, it boils down to ~/.cache/popsort/by_inst . -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog
