[Popcon-developers] mining popcon data

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

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