Re: [Haskell-cafe] The state of Hackage: what are we doing about it?

Bas wrote:

Ordering by nr of direct/indirect reverse dependencies might also be useful.

this is already done. After indexing the cabal pages, the dependencies are all known and a package rank is derived from that graph. That is also used in the (new) function search, functions in base (and bytestring) then really get a high rank.

We could add a .csv file version of the main reverse dependency page which you can index easily: http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage/packages/archive/revdeps-list. html

not really needed, see above. More interesting for package search is a popularity statistics. Thanks for your hint, Uwe