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* [gentoo-project] New research: Gentoo Portage Package Dependencies
@ 2014-05-19 10:24 Pavlos Ratis
  2014-05-19 18:06 ` Rich Freeman
  2014-05-20  0:02 ` Patrick Lauer
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Pavlos Ratis @ 2014-05-19 10:24 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-project

Hello,

Recently I found that there's a new research on Gentoo, specifically
for Portage and package dependencies[1].

-- Authors --
Remco Bloemen, Chintan Amrit, Stefan Kuhlmann, Gonzalo
Ordóñez–Matamoros  -- University of Twente

-- Abstract --
  "Open source distributions such as Gentoo need to accurately track
dependency relations between software packages in order to install
working systems. To do this, Gentoo has a carefully authored database
containing those relations. In this paper, we extract the Gentoo
package dependency graph and its changes over time. The final
dependency graph spans 15 thousand open source projects and 80
thousand dependency relations. Furthermore, the development of this
graph is tracked over time from the beginning of the Gentoo project in
2000 to the first quarter of 2012, with monthly resolution. We perform
a cluster analyses of the package dependency graph that reveal
meaningful relations among packages, and in a separate paper we
analyse changes in the dependencies over time to get insights in the
innovation dynamics of open source software. The resulting dataset
provides many opportunities for both research on Open Source as well
as practice."

 The research paper is going to be presented in the 11th Working
Conference on Mining Software Repositories[2].

[1] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/261100411_Gentoo_Portage_Package_Dependencies

[2] http://2014.msrconf.org/program.php

Regards,
Pavlos


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