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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new category: games-adventure/
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:28:46
Message-Id: 20130715162837.GC26614@comet.hsd1.mn.comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] new category: games-adventure/ by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 On 17:26 Sun 14 Jul , Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
2 > I would object... 10 games are wayyyy too few for a new category and
3 > especially pkg moves..
4
5 I wrote a script years ago to make recommendations for this. I just
6 updated it to do things a little smarter. It bases its suggestions on
7 percentiles of existing category sizes.
8
9 http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/scripts/category-size
10
11 $ category-size
12
13 Statistics for /usr/portage:
14 Median packages per category = 51
15 Suggested category size (25%–75%): 18 to 91
16 Split categories with more than 91 packages, and do not create categories with fewer than 18 packages.
17
18 --
19 Thanks,
20 Donnie
21
22 Donnie Berkholz
23 Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com>
24 Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/>