[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Mon Nov 29 11:11:17 CET 2010

Michael scherer a écrit :
+> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:16:57PM +0100, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+>    
+...
+>> is there a way to get rpm usage stats from those unmaintained packages.
+>>      
+> No. We can only get download stats from mirrors. While it may be biased toward
+> some geographical preference ( ie, I doubt many people download locale-zh
+> from distrib-coffee ), it can give at least some ideas. Nothing precise, but
+> still better than random.
+>    
+
+If the package in question is on an ISO, we can only speculate if it was 
+installed from the ISO.
+So we would have individual downloads + possibly any/all ISOs (one or 
+more times).
+>
+>> they really do so, it's kind of their own fault. i don't think the majority
+>> does that. the majority leaves it at default.
+>>      
+> And so the majority will say "$distro is bad because there is not enough software".
+>    
+
+Exactly.  So sense hiding officially non-maintained packages.  Many work 
+perfectly well.  And for those that don't, resulting bug reports could 
+result in them being fixed.
+
+- André
+