On 09/01/11 18:09, Kaiting Chen wrote:
On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:50, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
Is there no "package popularity contest" that could offer information about actual usage?
This is always an interesting topic to discuss. There is pkgstats which unfortunately is not ideal statistically in that it does not pull data from a characteristic sample. To figure out actual usage data is probably impossible. The metrics from MirrorBrain might be the closest one can actually get to that. Unfortunately that is not what we use to manage our mirrors. --Kaiting.
I assume it's been up for discussion earlier then, right? ;-) I have vague memories of Debian's popcon package, and sort of assumed someone would have something similar for Arch. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus