> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Loui Chang <louipc....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon 25 Oct 2010 19:46 +0200, Xyne wrote: > > > > > > 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.
On Mon 25 Oct 2010 22:35 -0400, Kaiting Chen wrote: > Can you vote on packages in community? Also wouldn't it make more sense to > pull the usage data from the download servers? You can no longer vote on community packages. Pulling usage data from the mirrors would be pretty tricky. I remembered it being discussed either on the bug tracker or mailing list. The only option in this case is pkgstats. I think it would be great to have voting for official packages though.