Wednesday·15·April·2009
Useless Statistics, the 2nd //at 19:35 //by abe
Myon recently posted a nice statistic about popular single letter package name prefixes. Just out of curiosity I started wondering about popular single letter package name suffixes:
On a machine with Debian oldstable, stable, testing, unstable and experimental in its sources.list, I ran the following command:
$ apt-cache search -n . | \
awk '{print $1}' | \
sed -e 's/.$//' | \
sort | \
uniq -c | \
sort -n
And to my surprise there is a non-obvious winner:
$ apt-cache search -n '^gp.$' gpa - GNU Privacy Assistant gpc - The GNU Pascal compiler gpe - The G Palmtop Environment (GPE) metapackage gpm - General Purpose Mouse interface gpp - a general-purpose preprocessor with customizable syntax gpr - GUI for lpr: print files and configure printer-specific options gps - Graphical Process Statistics using GTK+ gpt - G-Portugol is a portuguese structured programming language gpw - Trigraph Password Generator
But since I searched through the binary packages many other hits are more obvious, like the seven packages hbf-cns40-1 to hbf-cns40-7:
[...]
4 ar
4 aspell-f
4 automake1.
4 cpp-4.
4 e
4 g++-4.
4 gappletviewer-4.
4 gcc-4.
4 gcj-4.
4 gcompris-sound-e
4 gfortran-4.
4 gij-4.
4 go
4 gobjc-4.
4 gobjc++-4.
4 h
4 iceweasel-l10n-e
4 iceweasel-l10n-k
4 kde-i18n-f
4 kde-i18n-h
4 kde-l10n-e
4 kde-l10n-s
4 kile-i18n-e
4 koffice-i18n-e
4 koffice-i18n-s
4 koffice-l10n-e
4 koffice-l10n-f
4 libqbanking
4 myspell-f
4 myspell-h
4 openoffice.org-help-e
4 openoffice.org-l10n-b
4 openoffice.org-l10n-h
4 openoffice.org-l10n-k
4 sd
4 tcl8.
4 tk8.
5 aspell-e
5 aspell-h
5 iceweasel-l10n-s
5 kde-i18n-b
5 kde-i18n-e
5 kde-i18n-t
5 kde-l10n-k
5 openoffice.org-l10n-e
5 openoffice.org-l10n-t
5 pa
5 tc
6 gc
6 kde-i18n-s
6 libdb4.
6 m
6 openoffice.org-l10n-n
6 openoffice.org-l10n-s
6 s
7 hbf-cns40-
9 gp
But there are also some other interesting observations to make:
- OpenOffice.org seems to have by far the biggest number of localisations, with KDE being 2nd.
- There are 6 version of the Berkeley DB in Debian: libdb4.2 to libdb4.7 (including oldstable as mentioned above)
I leave it as an exercise to the reader to find the full names of the
other package names starting with s, m, gc, pa or tc and having just
one additional character. ;-)
Tagged as: Debian, Etch, Lenny, Myon, names, Other Blogs, packages, Planet Debian, scripting, Sid, Squeeze, statistics
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