[aur-general] pkgstats and unused [community] packages

[Xyne]

Brieuc ROBLIN wrote:

> On 25 October 2010 15:06, Florian Pritz <bluewind at server-speed.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 25.10.2010 12:35, Christopher Brannon wrote:
> > > I've been polling <https://archlinux.de/?page=PackageStatistics>
> > > regularly for several weeks, and I've noticed that roughly 50% of the
> > > packages in [community] are not installed by anyone.
> >
> > The page doesn't show the whole database.
> >
> > --
> > Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net<bluewind%7D at server-speed.net>
> >
> >
> Is there a way to get the whole database ? Would be cool if we could play
> with the raw statistics from pkgstat ;)

Not all users submit stats so unless Arch installs spyware on everyone's system
or pools download stats from the mirrors, those states are not sufficient to
motivate removals.