On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 5:07 PM, kludge <[email protected]> wrote: > Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:39:38PM -0600, kludge wrote: >>>> IMO votes are no more needed on packages in repostories, neither any >>>> dividing into categories usig tags. >>>> Looking forward to the new order :) >>>> >>>> Jaro >>> one user's question: >>> >>> if there is no voting on packages in [community], then what mechanism >>> exists for users to suggest/cheer on a package's promotion to [extra]? >>> >>> -kludge >> >> One users answer: >> >> Maybe the same mechanism that would move packages out of extra to >> unsupported or community? >> Its called pkgstats. pacman -S pkgstats and then exec pkgstats as root >> IIRC. >> >> Greg > > accepted. for what it's worth, pkstats seems too "passive" an > interaction to me. i feel more involved in any system when i can make > active decision about what goes where (even if it's just one voice in > the wilderness saying, "hey, wouldn't this be cool?!?"). hence why i > run arch. > > then again, i have no hands-on experience managing packages, so my > opinion is entirely from the user-side. maybe it's just my humanities > degree showing :)
Certainly an interesting distinction, but, at the same time we have many more people yelling that the voting sucks and is terrible and no one cares about it. I certainly side with you on this one, but if two or three people are using it, and hundreds not using it, it's wasted effort.
