kludge wrote: > Loui Chang wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:15:23PM +0100, Kristoffer Fossgård wrote: >>> Why is package popularity judged by votes anyway? I never vote. The >>> reason i never vote is because i don't understand why package >>> popularity can't simply be judged by download count. >> Votes are a conscious approval of a package. Downloads are not. >> > > explicit downloads sure are... unless you like to play pacman roulette, > i guess. > > but i don't. if it's explicitly installed, it's because i wanted the > damn thing. > > -kludge
sorry, that obviously only applies to [community] and to the aur. but it still applies to [community]. -kludge
