That wouldn't be the best way... it might actually be quite inaccurate.
Many people (I am one of them) download a package/software to try it, and then 
delete it if they don't like it. 

Voting pretty much allows to discard these hits where someone downloads 
something, then dumps it for whatever reason

On July 30, 2005 03:56 pm, Casey McGinty wrote:
> Maybe instead of voting, the AUR should track number of downloads, or
> page hits ... something more automatic.
>
> - Casey
>

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