On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 07:21:32PM -0600, kludge wrote: > Loui Chang wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:15:23PM +0100, Kristoffer Fossgård wrote: > >> Why is package popularity judged by votes anyway? I never vote. The > >> reason i never vote is because i don't understand why package > >> popularity can't simply be judged by download count. > > > > Votes are a conscious approval of a package. Downloads are not. > > > > explicit downloads sure are... unless you like to play pacman roulette, > i guess. > > but i don't. if it's explicitly installed, it's because i wanted the > damn thing.
That's good. I occaisionally download apps to try them and remove them soon after. Those are packages I would not vote on. Don't tell me you haven't ever done that.
