On 26 October 2010 10:38, 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]> >> > > >> > > >> > 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.
Yes, Allan has also mentioned this in the pkgstats thread [1]. The factor here is the criteria for packages entering community. We say more than 10 votes OR 1% usage, but these cannot correlate. Users contributing to votes may not necessarily be contributing to usage statistics. Even if they did, most often they'd account for less than 1% of the usage pool, even for a package with 50 votes. [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=831180#p831180
