On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon 25 Oct 2010 19:46 +0200, Xyne wrote:
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.
On Mon 25 Oct 2010 22:35 -0400, Kaiting Chen wrote:
Can you vote on packages in community? Also wouldn't it make more sense to pull the usage data from the download servers?
You can no longer vote on community packages. Pulling usage data from the mirrors would be pretty tricky. I remembered it being discussed either on the bug tracker or mailing list. The only option in this case is pkgstats. I think it would be great to have voting for official packages though.