Slackbuild survey

SqdnGuns · 04-29-2011, 09:37 PM

24...............as of right now.

escaflown · 04-29-2011, 09:37 PM

194, 219,126, 339

ysg · 04-29-2011, 09:39 PM

Only 16 packages for me.

This is for my 13.37 desktop. I pretty much have things how I want them at this point. But I would be interested in seeing the full list and how popular each package is. Might find a gem or two I didn't know about.

slakmagik · 04-29-2011, 09:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unclejed613

anybode know how to export the package list to an sbopkg queue?

Queue > Add; then Save

or something like

sbopkg -p | rev | cut --complement -d- -f1-3 | rev | head -n-1 > $QUEUEDIR/all.sqf

Either of those will likely need editing if you need them specially ordered or need them with options, but it'll grab the names, anyway.

slakmagik · 04-29-2011, 09:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by escaflown

194, 219,126, 339

Wow. I didn't know SBo even had almost two hundred billion packages.

willysr · 04-29-2011, 10:30 PM

Got 77 packages

escaflown · 04-29-2011, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slakmagik

Wow. I didn't know SBo even had almost two hundred billion packages.

I have 4 slack boxes: it's the count for each box.

bosth · 04-30-2011, 12:04 AM

I just ran all the submissions through the processor and here's how it stands at the moment:

Code:

=== Machines ===
  total:  125
  32-bit: 68
  64-bit: 57

=== Packages ===
  Total number of unique packages:  1709
  Total number of package installs: 9306
  Average number of packages per machine: 74

Moving to the top packages by number of installs, there's a nice three-way tie at the top between lame, libsigc++ and unrar. I'm a little surprised that two of the four most popular packages are compression (well, uncompression) utilities. Less surprising is the number of codecs in the top 20.

Code:

    1. lame (64)                                                                                                         
    2. libsigc++ (64)
    3. unrar (64)                                                                                                        
    4. p7zip (58)
    5. lua (56)                                                                                                          
    6. glibmm (54)
    7. x264 (54)
    8. faac (51)                                                                                                         
    9. cairomm (50)                                                                                                      
   10. faad2 (49)                                                                                                        
   11. pangomm (49)
   12. gtkmm (48)
   13. scons (48)                                                                                                        
   14. flash-player-plugin (46)                                                                                          
   15. libdvdcss (46)                                                                                                    
   16. libmp4v2 (45)                                                                                                     
   17. xvidcore (45)                                                                                                     
   18. imlib2 (42)                                                                                                       
   19. webcore-fonts (42)                                                                                                
   20. speex (41)

I noticed a few other things. A lot of people are clearly customising their SlackBuilds to use a newer version than the 'official' script (see calibre for example). A few people have added the _SBo tag to non SBo scripts (what's extra.fonts?). And someone out there has installed DevIL without a version number (DevIL--x86_64-3).

Code:

=== calibre =======================                                                                                      
installs: 8                                                                                                              
versions                                                                                                                 
  0.5.14: 1 (12%)
  0.7.18: 1 (12%)
  0.7.30: 1 (12%)
  0.7.36: 1 (12%)
  0.7.4: 1 (12%)
  0.7.46: 1 (12%)
  0.7.48: 2 (25%)
architecture
  i486: 4 (50%)
  x86_64: 4 (50%)

I'm attaching the current stats from all 125 submissions. I'm sure more will keep coming and I'll post again in a few days.

chrisretusn · 04-30-2011, 12:05 AM

I did it again off my server. only 1.

josiah · 04-30-2011, 02:52 AM

101, though I should really pare that down a little. I suppose it evens out, though, since there are one or two that have my own $TAG because I changed the SlackBuild too much.

diwljina · 04-30-2011, 02:54 AM

126 packages were recorded. :-)

josiah · 04-30-2011, 02:55 AM

Whoops, never mind, I left the SBo $TAG on the main one I was thinking of (Mixxx). In any case, Sauerbraten is about to be uninstalled, and I am about to decide that Wesnoth is taking too much of my time to stay. And NetworkManager needs to go, too. Maybe someday I'll prefer it over Wicd, but not yet.

Mark Pettit · 04-30-2011, 04:16 AM

324 packages were recorded.

Ramurd · 04-30-2011, 04:29 AM

Submitted my 6 :-)
Have the tendency to build my own slackbuild scripts from my own template; I hate it that SBo puts everything in /tmp; clobbers that dir up too much for my taste... I like to have /tmp as clean as possible.

Mark Pettit · 04-30-2011, 04:37 AM

@Ramurd - on traditional Unix boxes (eg Solaris, AT&T SVR4, etc) /tmp does not survive a reboot. Thus after a clean boot, /tmp is empty. I've always wondered why Linux has never done this. Easy to remedy of course - merely add a few lines of 'rm /tmp/*' and
'rm /tmp/.*' to one of the early startup scripts.