On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:52 AM, 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.
Guys. I have to point out a flaw in this reasoning. We are talking about packages _entering_ community. Not remaining there. For packages not in community, there is no download except from the AUR website. We *could* in theory, track this, but there's 3 or 4 different ways one can download things from the AUR Again, just downloading a package does not mean I like it or use it. As someone previously stated: if you tell me you've never installed a packaged, tried it, and removed it because you didn't like it, you're probably lying.
