On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 5:07 PM, kludge <drkludge@rat-patrol.org> wrote:
Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:39:38PM -0600, kludge wrote:
IMO votes are no more needed on packages in repostories, neither any dividing into categories usig tags. Looking forward to the new order :)
Jaro one user's question:
if there is no voting on packages in [community], then what mechanism exists for users to suggest/cheer on a package's promotion to [extra]?
-kludge
One users answer:
Maybe the same mechanism that would move packages out of extra to unsupported or community? Its called pkgstats. pacman -S pkgstats and then exec pkgstats as root IIRC.
Greg
accepted. for what it's worth, pkstats seems too "passive" an interaction to me. i feel more involved in any system when i can make active decision about what goes where (even if it's just one voice in the wilderness saying, "hey, wouldn't this be cool?!?"). hence why i run arch.
then again, i have no hands-on experience managing packages, so my opinion is entirely from the user-side. maybe it's just my humanities degree showing :)
Certainly an interesting distinction, but, at the same time we have many more people yelling that the voting sucks and is terrible and no one cares about it. I certainly side with you on this one, but if two or three people are using it, and hundreds not using it, it's wasted effort.