On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:47:28AM +0100, Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote: > 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.
Does "orphaned" mean old, orphaned packages? I saw some entries, where maintenance was stopped because of "not time". If such a package has 6 votes and 200 hundred downloads, it looks more accepted/used as one with 0 votes and 7 downloads. If both cover interesting topic (maybe the same topic), it's not guaranteed, but maybe more likely that the one with more votes and downloads might need a maintainer. > > 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. Aha. But is that really more accurate? A new installation could mean someone who is installing Linux the first time, and then tries some packages... ...is there also a statistics about package removal? > > 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'' Thanks you. Ciao, Oliver