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Hello, |
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Recently I found that there's a new research on Gentoo, specifically |
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for Portage and package dependencies[1]. |
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-- Authors -- |
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Remco Bloemen, Chintan Amrit, Stefan Kuhlmann, Gonzalo |
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Ordóñez–Matamoros -- University of Twente |
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-- Abstract -- |
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"Open source distributions such as Gentoo need to accurately track |
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dependency relations between software packages in order to install |
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working systems. To do this, Gentoo has a carefully authored database |
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containing those relations. In this paper, we extract the Gentoo |
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package dependency graph and its changes over time. The final |
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dependency graph spans 15 thousand open source projects and 80 |
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thousand dependency relations. Furthermore, the development of this |
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graph is tracked over time from the beginning of the Gentoo project in |
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2000 to the first quarter of 2012, with monthly resolution. We perform |
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a cluster analyses of the package dependency graph that reveal |
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meaningful relations among packages, and in a separate paper we |
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analyse changes in the dependencies over time to get insights in the |
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innovation dynamics of open source software. The resulting dataset |
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provides many opportunities for both research on Open Source as well |
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as practice." |
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The research paper is going to be presented in the 11th Working |
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Conference on Mining Software Repositories[2]. |
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[1] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/261100411_Gentoo_Portage_Package_Dependencies |
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[2] http://2014.msrconf.org/program.php |
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Regards, |
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Pavlos |
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