Re: [gentoo-dev] New Project: Gentoostats

[Gokturk Yuksek]

Hi,

Daniel Campbell:
> On 01/02/2017 09:27 AM, Gokturk Yuksek wrote:
>> Alexander Shorin:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Thanks for sharing. Would be nice see updated README file (it contains
>>> outdated links to Not Found pages) and add few notes about comparison
>>> of your solution with collectd, ussd and the rest modern stats
>>> collecting tools.
>>> How better it  suites Gentoo machines and why to use it today instead
>>> of any existed and mature tool?
>>
>> We are interested in different kinds of stats with gentoostats. The main
>> purpose of gentoostats is to collect package statistics, and currently
>> it does so by utilizing the Portage API. Here's a sample output from the
>> gentoostats-cli tool that may give you a better idea:
>>
>> $ gentoostats-cli search --c sys-apps --p portage --v 2.3.0 --r gentoo
>> --min_hosts 4
>> Search results
>> [{'CAT': 'sys-apps',
>>   'HOSTS': 5,
>>   'PKG': 'portage',
>>   'REPO': 'gentoo',
>>   'VER': '2.3.0'}]
>>
>> There is also other Gentoo-specific information it collects such as this:
>>
>> $ gentoostats-cli list arch
>> Arch
>> {'amd64': {'HOSTS': 4}, 'x86': {'HOSTS': 1}}
>>
>>> --
>>> ,,,^..^,,,
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> gokturk
>>
>>
> Is it too late to suggest more standard flags? `--c` for example doesn't
> make sense to me since '--' is used more for GNU long options. So it
> should be '--category' and '-c' instead. Of course that's just my
> opinion, so take it with salt as usual. :)
>

That's a typo on my part, thanks for pointing it out :) It's
'-c/--category', '-p/--package', '-v/--version' and '-r/--repo'. I used
the long options, then decided to go with the short ones to increase
readability, forgot to remove extra '-'.

> Still, interesting project and I might run it on a machine if it can
> help us out.
>