HEADLINE: Better package discovery DESCRIPTION: There are a ton of packages in Debian. I sometimes browse through all of the packages looking for some gem tha

HEADLINE: Better package discovery DESCRIPTION: There are a ton of packages in Debian. I sometimes browse through all of the packages looking for some gem that I didn't know about before. It's a time intensive process and I don't have any input into my decision other than reading the description. Sometimes I'll install it immediately. Other times I'll check out the website to see if it's still maintained (or if there's a better alternative). It's all a very manual process. popcon doesn't fill this void. Popcon tells me what packages are popular across all users. I'm more interested in what a subset of users with similar interests or preferences would install. Or maybe I want to see what it's like to live in someone else's shoes. For instance, maybe I'm learning a new programming language and I want to setup my environment similar to an experienced user so I have all of the popular libraries already installed. It would be nice if there was a better way to discover packages that are relevant to you. Perhaps you could add this feature as a way of getting people to install popcon? For example, you could say if you install popcon, then it will upload your set of installed packages and make recommendations for you. If people are able to add metadata about themselves (e.g. I'm an expert Emacs user and I'm a golang developer), then you could use that plus their package list to make recommendations. I could say "show me what packages golang developers tend to install". Or you could say "for someone with a package list similar to mine, find out what packages are popular that I'm missing".