On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:09:20PM -0400, Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Joey Hess wrote: > > > It would be nice to have a list which Recommends are ignored/overridden > > the most when installing packages, to identify Recommends that need to be > > downgraded to Suggests. Could we derive such a list from popcon data? I > > think it would need to be done by analyzing each individual popcon data > > submission, so I can't do it as that data is not published. > > I think you need more than popcon data: popcon doesn't say which packages were > manually installed and which were automatically AFAIK. Maybe package B is > installed and only recommended by A, but there is no way to tell if package B > wasn't needed on it's own.
It's true that you probably couldn't use this to find recommendations that *should* exist, but if a Recommends is being widely ignored / overridden (i.e., if the number of systems installed A but not B is high), then it might be worth re-examining that dependency. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]