On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:31 AM, w9ya <w9ya@qrparci.net> wrote:
1 - I maintain an offshoot version of archlinux, derived from faunos, called "shackstick". It is used and is becoming quite popular amongst the ham radio community. It is packaged as a whole and the user does NOT download packages or even is part of the arch linux community, so NO votes are taken. Yet it uses over 25 of my packages that would seem to otherwise be without votes.
Just to point out a flaw here. Users of these packages are not ArchLinux users. They are shackstick users. So votes don't make sense for ArchLinux. These packages would not make sense in an ArchLinux repo, on an ArchLinux server, for use by 1 or 2 ArchLinux users, and a few hundred users of another distribution. So, in the case you have outlined, the voting is working perfectly as intended.