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

Kaiting Chen kaitocracy at gmail.com
Mon Oct 25 22:35:07 EDT 2010


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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