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

[Kaiting Chen]

Can you vote on packages in community? Also wouldn't it make more sense to
pull the usage data from the download servers?

Kaiting.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
> <bluewind%7D at server-speed.net <bluewind%257D 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.
>
>


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