So I have been doing some bash scripting out of some comment in a conversation to count (and rank) the packages by the number of ebuilds they have (and thus of versions of said package). The results can be seen at http://dev.gentoo.org/~klondike/ebuildrank.txt and if there is interest I can try to automate the generation of the ranking daily (though I'd like infra's comments on that).
As some extra candy I have calculated which is the percentage of packages holding the same number of packages, it is impressive seeing how more than 50% of the ebuilds have only 1 and more than 75% have two or less! If I recall my stats classes the number of versions in a package seems to follow some kind of poison distribution. 175 .00635687496026953100 68 .00635687496026953100 31 .00635687496026953100 28 .00635687496026953100 25 .00635687496026953100 23 .01271374992053906200 22 .01271374992053906200 21 .01271374992053906200 20 .01271374992053906200 19 .01271374992053906200 16 .05721187464242578300 15 .04449812472188672000 14 .04449812472188672000 13 .07628249952323437700 12 .08263937448350390900 11 .12078062424512109800 10 .15892187400673828700 9 .22884749856970313300 8 .31784374801347657400 7 .76282499523234377900 6 2.20583561121352742900 5 2.47282435954484775200 4 4.54516559659271502100 3 11.39151992880300044400 2 25.75170046405187209900 1 51.64325217722967389200 Hope you enjoy the numbers as much as I enjoyed calculating them! klondike
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