[aur-general] Proposed rules for packages entering [community]

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 13:23:07 EST 2008


On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Drew Frank <goodgrue at archlinux.us> wrote:
> 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?

That's (a) a breach of privacy and (b) something that would never get
integrated into pacman.

The pkgstats server doesn't keep track of user info. THe old archstats
did, but we have proven time and time again that no one ever uses
archstats.... we've had it for ages, have you ever used it?


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