On 2013-02-28 at 21:09:30 +0100, oliver wrote: > is it possible to see the number of downloads of packages from AUR, > so that it can be detected, how much interest in a package exists?
I suspect that the use case of "download from AUR, try to build and install, (possibly even fail, or just decide that another alternative fits better), delete the package, forget about it" is not so rare, expecially with old orphaned packages. The system used in Debian to estimate the popularity of packages, popcon_, gives the number of installed packages, but also what IMHO is an even more important stats: the number of recently used installation. This requires voluntary submissions, the installation of an ad-hoc program and working atime on /usr, so it is not perfect and probably not something that arch can adopt, but IMHO worth considering as a comparison. .. _popcon: http://popcon.debian.org/ -- Elena ``of Valhalla''
