Well, it could be done without extending pacman though, by adding a line to the post install script. to ping the server or something. The AUR could pretty easily automate adding this to any uploaded PKGBUILDs.
iphitus On 8/1/05, Edward Steel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > -- iphitus - www.iphitus.tk _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
