On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:31:05PM -0600, kludge wrote:

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but i don't. if it's explicitly installed, it's because i wanted the damn thing.

That's good. I occaisionally download apps to try them and remove them soon after. Those are packages I would not vote on.

Don't tell me you haven't ever done that.

fair enough.

what about votes:downloads, accompanied by a big push to get people voting?

This proposal should be the signal that we are going to start taking votes more seriously, but no packages will be removed for now.

(btw, as a result of this debate, i'm finally voting for the packages i use.)

Good to hear!

Here's a little script to help figure out what's installed from a particular repo. Use `repo-installed community` for [community], etc. This'll help people figure out what to vote for.

#!/bin/bash # Print a list of packages installed from a given repo. # # Not everything will be listed if your installed packages # are out of date. # # This will work for most standard installations. # If you have an exotic setup just edit pacmandb. # # Usage: repo-installed <repo>

pacmandb=/var/lib/pacman

if [ -z "$1" ] ; then echo "Please specify a repo." echo -e "\tUsage: $0 <repo>" exit 1 fi

installed=($(/bin/ls "$pacmandb/local"))

for pkg in ${installed[@]} do if [ -e "$pacmandb/sync/$1/$pkg" ] ; then echo $pkg fi done