On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:52 AM, bardo <ilbardo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Kristoffer Fossgård <kfs1@online.no> wrote:
Your all missing my point. I never said counting packages by downloadrate is a perfect solution but that IT IS GOOD ENOUGH _and_ BETTER THAN THE VOTE SYSTEM.
That's what I thought. Even monitoring a single download mirror could be enough, if it's not an obscure and unpopular one. At least gathered data would be statistically *relevant*, even though not accurate. We can think of a single mirror as a good approximation of the whole community, excluding i18n/l10n packages, which are highly dependendt on the physical location of the mirror itself.
Guys. I have to point out a flaw in this reasoning. We are talking about packages _entering_ community. [...]
This is a good point. However, some people have mentioned that it would be nice to prune [community] of unused packages, too, if we had a reliable way of detecting them. Thus, I think it makes sense to consider tracking [community] package usage as well if a new usage tracking system is developed.
Again, just downloading a package does not mean I like it or use it. As someone previously stated: if you tell me you've never installed a packaged, tried it, and removed it because you didn't like it, you're probably lying.
I do this all the time as well. One possible solution: if an "I use this!" message were sent to the stat-tracking server automatically from pacman upon installing a package, it would not be much of an extension to send a "Oops, not anymore" message when it is uninstalled. Thoughts?