On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:21 PM, kludge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
And, again, tracking downloads is not feasible. I mean, technically we can't even track downloads from ftp.archlinux.org, as even THAT is a mirror
