[Popcon-developers] mining popcon data
Petter Reinholdtsen
pere at hungry.com
Fri Jul 30 17:10:59 UTC 2010
See <URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/popcon-developers/2009-June/001765.html >
for the answered given when this came up earlier.
The question come up regularly, perhaps we should write some FAQ and
put the answer there?
> By no means I intend to violate users privacy.
Good.
> What I am thinking about is having some sort of package recommender
> system that would base its recommendation on the real use of
> packages. Thus I would use popcon data base to deduce what packages
> usually come along with other packages, things like that.
I have vague memories of Enroco Zini working on something similar, and
even publishing a web application allowing one to find similar
packages by uploading ones popcon submission.
> I'm interested in how packages relate to each other in adition to
> package dependencies, recommends and conflicts, which we already
> know since they are defined by the mantainer.
>
> My focus would be the "use driven" package relationship.
See the earlier thread for some ideas.
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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