Can you vote on packages in community? Also wouldn't it make more sense to pull the usage data from the download servers?
Kaiting. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Loui Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon 25 Oct 2010 19:46 +0200, Xyne wrote: > > Brieuc ROBLIN wrote: > > > > > On 25 October 2010 15:06, Florian Pritz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > On 25.10.2010 12:35, Christopher Brannon wrote: > > > > > I've been polling <https://archlinux.de/?page=PackageStatistics> > > > > > regularly for several weeks, and I've noticed that roughly 50% of > the > > > > > packages in [community] are not installed by anyone. > > > > > > > > The page doesn't show the whole database. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Florian Pritz -- > > > > {flo,[email protected]<[email protected]> > <[email protected] <bluewind%[email protected]>> > > > > > > > > > > > Is there a way to get the whole database ? Would be cool if we could > play > > > with the raw statistics from pkgstat ;) > > > > Not all users submit stats so unless Arch installs spyware on > > everyone's system or pools download stats from the mirrors, those > > states are not sufficient to motivate removals. > > Well, I've argued in the past that if not enough users care enough to > give feedback to the developers about what they care about in the > distro, either through votes, or pkgstats, or some other way then it's > not something that the devs should have to worry about. > > -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/
