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

[Loui Chang]

On Mon 25 Oct 2010 19:46 +0200, Xyne wrote:
> 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.

Well, I've argued in the past that if not enough users care enough to
give feedback to the developers about what they care about in the
distro, either through votes, or pkgstats, or some other way then it's
not something that the devs should have to worry about.