[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

[andre999]

Michael scherer a écrit :
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:16:57PM +0100, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
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>> is there a way to get rpm usage stats from those unmaintained packages.
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> 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.
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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).
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>> 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.
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> And so the majority will say "$distro is bad because there is not enough software".
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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