On 09/01/11 18:09, Kaiting Chen wrote: > On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:50, Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org> wrote: >> Is there no "package popularity contest" that could offer information about >> actual usage? > > This is always an interesting topic to discuss. There is pkgstats which > unfortunately is not ideal statistically in that it does not pull data from > a characteristic sample. To figure out actual usage data is probably > impossible. The metrics from MirrorBrain might be the closest one can > actually get to that. Unfortunately that is not what we use to manage our > mirrors. --Kaiting.
I assume it's been up for discussion earlier then, right? ;-) I have vague memories of Debian's popcon package, and sort of assumed someone would have something similar for Arch. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
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