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swalladge

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Registered: 2013-10-22

Posts: 32

[survey] How many packages do you have installed?

I put together a survey inspired by the recent reddit post. Thought it might be interesting to get this data in the one spot and do some analysis on it.

Survey url: https://goo.gl/forms/NZ5mlim0MFDd57iE2

Interested to hear your thoughts/feedback and see what results/trends emerge!

(Please let me know if anything on the survey form needs fixing.)

Slithery

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Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: [survey] How many packages do you have installed?

Have you seen the long-running thread on this exact topic?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=194188

There's also the results of the pkgstats application available...
https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/

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swalladge

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Registered: 2013-10-22

Posts: 32

Re: [survey] How many packages do you have installed?

Have you seen the long-running thread on this exact topic?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=194188

There's also the results of the pkgstats application available...
https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/

Oh I hadn't seen either of those! To be fair, neither of those present the data in a form that can be easily worked with for eg. getting averages or correlations (at least not for the stats I'm looking for).

Last edited by swalladge (2018-06-22 14:54:47)

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: [survey] How many packages do you have installed?

"How many packages are installed on your machine?"

1785

"Hint: one method to calculate this, requires the 'units' command installed"

I guess I now have 1786!

sleepyoh

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Registered: 2016-11-05

Posts: 15

Re: [survey] How many packages do you have installed?

My server has 889, Desktop I am not on right now but it's 1400 something.

I dont really honestly care at all how many packages I have, as long as the space is sufficient and my programs work as intended I don't care. I used to care, about alot, but as time is expensive, I tend to not worry about such things no more.

Mardukas

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Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 121

Re: [survey] How many packages do you have installed?

My server has 889, Desktop I am not on right now but it's 1400 something.

I dont really honestly care at all how many packages I have, as long as the space is sufficient and my programs work as intended I don't care. I used to care, about alot, but as time is expensive, I tend to not worry about such things no more.

Wow. My servers have 229 installed.

etnull

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From: Hackerland

Registered: 2018-04-26

Posts: 33

Re: [survey] How many packages do you have installed?

371 miner
997 desktop