package popularity ratings

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at 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
>

Stephen "Amazon is our salvation..." Smoogen



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