On Wednesday 03 December 2008 1:31:46 am w9ya wrote: [putolin]
- Yes users are ALWAYS VERY IMPORTANT, including the ones that do NOT vote. The problem is that a user has to understand enough about archlinux to get ahold of aurvotes and yaourt and manage to install them, and we forget how hard this process can be compared to simply installing it and using the binary repos. The ham radio community seeks solutions to problems adn quite frankly arch is a good solution, but asking them to vote and so forth is NOT a good solution to seeing their use represented as it is quite a bit of additional work to just vote on something. Heck most of the users of arch are not even registered users, let alone voters.
If I may be allowed to say something here..... I have been an Arch Linux user for about 1 year after migrating from Fedora to Linux From Scratch to now Arch. I have now five machines (at home) currently running Arch from desktops to servers. In my side business I build subversion systems for small businesses. I picked Arch to build these because of the rolling release model and the ABS system. ABS is an excellent system if I may say. It is easier for me to build custom system for my side business. I have in the whole time up to now have not voted upon a single package in any repo. Although I have consumed packages from most of the repos, AUR included. Voting for a package(s) is just not something that is of value to me as a user/consumer . So I can some what [ validate && understand ] what Bob Finch is saying. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sorry BASH made me do it :)