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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: swedebugia@riseup.net
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org,
	Guix-devel <guix-devel-bounces+swedebugia=riseup.net@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: 01/01: scripts: refresh: Allow searching recursively.
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:27:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87va2zw1vp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab7e87f14d29ca2f91f2492a4b04db8f@riseup.net> (swedebugia's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2019 12:15:19 -0800")

Hi,

swedebugia@riseup.net skribis:

> Furthermore we could create words to describe packages with many/few
> dependencies:
>
> Package X is a heavy root with 120 upward links.
>
> We could define a scale and make our commands output it consistently:
>
> - light root <=50 upward links
> - medium root >50<=100 upward links
> - heavy root >100<=500 upward links
> - very heavy root >500<=1000 upward links
> - extremely heavy root >1000 upward links
>
> (The numbers above are just an example)

Yes, I’ve been wanting something like this, but IIRC the current (guix
graph) implementation turned out to be inefficient to compute
upward/downward rank for a large number of nodes.

Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-01-08 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20181224103304.24211.61386@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20181224103305.59E3520448@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-12-25 15:05   ` 01/01: scripts: refresh: Allow searching recursively Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-25 17:10     ` Efraim Flashner
2019-01-05 17:43       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-05 20:15         ` swedebugia
2019-01-08 16:27           ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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