On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 20:59 +1000, James Rayner wrote: > There's no perfect way of tracking a package on the AUR's success. > > We can monitor the package's installation, via Archstats or a custom > daemon, but many either wont run archstats or will bitch about privacy > issues. > > We can make people comment/vote themselves on the package, but we know > already that a lot of people wont do this. > > We can use a system that checks how many downloads a package has had, > however here we dont know whether people have continued using the > package, unless they respond with comments. > Couldn't pacman be extended? Without actually saying who has it installed, installing the package with pacman could send an increment to the aur and uninstalling a decrement. Automatic and private. I'm not sure I'm advocating this though, it would be a fair amount of work to replace the above systems that already give a good idea.
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