On 12/4/08, bardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Kristoffer Fossgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Your all missing my point. I never said counting packages by >> downloadrate is a perfect solution but that IT IS GOOD ENOUGH _and_ >> BETTER THAN THE VOTE SYSTEM. > > That's what I thought. Even monitoring a single download mirror could > be enough, if it's not an obscure and unpopular one. At least gathered > data would be statistically *relevant*, even though not accurate. We > can think of a single mirror as a good approximation of the whole > community, excluding i18n/l10n packages, which are highly dependendt > on the physical location of the mirror itself. > > Corrado >
I would think that the usage of packages depend on geographical location in the same way as distribution usage depend on geographical location. ronald
