Re: [aur-general] pkgstats and unused [community] packages

On 26 October 2010 10:38, Loui Chang wrote:

On Mon 25 Oct 2010 19:46 +0200, Xyne wrote:

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Brieuc ROBLIN wrote:

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On 25 October 2010 15:06, Florian Pritz wrote:

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On 25.10.2010 12:35, Christopher Brannon wrote:

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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,bluewind}@server-speed.net

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