Evolution

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:53:04 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:

>> Then open your eyes!
>>
>> #<name> is the package name;
>> #<inst> is the number of people who installed this package; #<vote> is
>> the number of people who use this package regularly; #<old> is the
>> number of people who installed, but don't use this package #       
>> regularly;
>> #<recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently;
>>
>> #rank name                            inst  vote   old recent 443  
>> evolution                      509363 80793 404082 24432 587  
>> thunderbird                    141871 45359 91515  4937
>>
>> Here is the problem: Your data says 509363 people Installed evolution.
>> This is not accurate. The number comes because every Ubuntu loaded has
>> evolution.
>     Now 141817 it seems loaded Thunderbird. They had to apt-get the
> software. But only 45,359 people are using it. Old is just a
> subtraction.
> 
>     For some reason the data shows 80,793 people are now using
> evolution. This is a great difference with both my 100 email samples of
> this list.
> 
>     Now my question remains, how were these numbers computed. In
> particular how was the number of d/l Thunderbird NOT USED counted?

Old means that the package wasn't used within the last 30 days. For an
e-mail client, this is a very long time.

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