Packages are there own dependents

[dschrempf]

Hi!

Thank you for this excellent website! Especially the reverse dependency feature is exciting! (Did you think about package metrics such as download rate? https://crates.io does a good job in that respect, I think.)

I saw that packages show up as their own "Dependents" (should we use "Reverse dependencies"?). For example, the package circular shows up in its dependents here: https://flora.pm/packages/@hackage/circular.

I was a bit surprised about this feature! Is this behavior desired?

Thank you!

[tchoutri]

Hi @dschrempf!

1. Did you think about package metrics such as download rate?

Yes I have, and it would power the next version of the search engine. See #4

2. Is this behavior desired?

Looks to me like this should be a custom "ignore" rule, because Flora actually scans all the components of all the releases, and you'll see that your test suite actually depends on circular: https://github.com/dschrempf/circular/blob/master/circular.cabal#L51 :)

So, I don't think we should filter out every test-suite component, but we certainly can filter out the package name itself from its own dependents. :)