On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Jeff Spaleta jspaleta@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Daniel P. Berrange berrange@redhat.com wrote:
Isn't any package popularity rating going to be hugely skewed such that the 'default install set' packages are basically always rated top, making rankings of dubious value
I personally see zero value in a flat popularity rating. I would see more value if we could find a way to correlate users such that I could datamine the application preferences of people who were already running systems similar to mine.
For example, XFCE users as a breed might prefer certain applications which are not 'popular' in the general userbase, but were immensely popular inside the XFCE subculture. Those shared preferences would never show up in a flat popularity rating..a rating destined to be dominated by FVWM2 users...so such a flat rating would never really be what XFCE users would find value in.
They would be better suited with:
People who installed Thunar also installed ... bsd-games and fortune_mod
-jef"Did i mention that I hate social networking"spaleta
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