-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 08:52:54AM -0400, David Maulik wrote: > On 7/11/2018 5:55 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 09:41:39PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> IDK, except there is a distro-wide popcon: > >> https://popcon.debian.org/ > > > > Yeah, only that popcon gathers analytics on what packages people > > install (to guide decisions on, for example, what should go in > > the first "CD"). > > > > Cheers > > -- tomás > > So I looked at the popcon README https://popcon.debian.org/README and much to > my surprise popcon has the functionality to generate a rudimentary list of > recently used programs.
[I assume you intended to CC the list -- there's much more knowledge "out there" than would fit in my humble skull] > For example, > popularity-contest | grep '<OLD>' > will show you a list of packages you haven't used in a while. Note that > this output isn't totally accurate: some packages appear "old" but you can't > remove them because other (non-old) packages depend on them. Shared library > packages are particularly bad this way because it's impossible to tell when > a library was last used. See? I learnt something new: popcon gathers statistics on when something was "used"... thanks for that insight. > It looks like I still have a little bit of research to do to get the fine > granular information I was looking for but I think I can start to work with > this information. With the help suggestions by Tomas about SystemTap I will > see if I can get what I am looking for, and maybe next time I will RTFM. Yes. Definitely an interesting research topic. Obviously "usage" or "relevance" in this context is at least a multi-dimensional property. I'd be interested in the conclusions you reach! Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAltHDpkACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYucwCfZ0k0GVsSmUCD/O8zCzsWISyS gkIAn0lF4YTh16l8sc81ixR0EY4kNLl1 =E0Gj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
