Re: Any way to query the Arch package list to get %-installed by package?

2024-09-05 Thread David C. Rankin
On 9/5/24 3:42 PM, Jaron Kent-Dobias wrote: On Thursday, 5 September 2024 at 15:36 (-0500), David C. Rankin wrote:  I was curious about the frequency that packages in extra and core are installed by Arch users. Is that metadata captured anywhere and is there any way a user can query it? Check

Re: Any way to query the Arch package list to get %-installed by package?

2024-09-05 Thread Merell L. Matlock, Jr.
On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 03:36:12PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, Devs, > > I was curious about the frequency that packages in extra and core are > installed by Arch users. Is that metadata captured anywhere and is there any > way a user can query it? > pkgstats [1] [2] ? [1] https://arc

Re: Any way to query the Arch package list to get %-installed by package?

2024-09-05 Thread David C. Rankin
On 9/5/24 3:49 PM, pitastrudl wrote: As far as I'm aware from a mirrors standpoint there is no way of knowing the frequency of installment as all packages are mirrored from T0 and then spread out to other mirrors that are out of our observation. Since T0 is just accessed by T1s, that is not a u

Re: Any way to query the Arch package list to get %-installed by package?

2024-09-05 Thread pitastrudl
On 9/5/24 10:36 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: All, Devs,   I was curious about the frequency that packages in extra and core are installed by Arch users. Is that metadata captured anywhere and is there any way a user can query it?   What sparked this curiosity is that I follow the package feeds

Re: Any way to query the Arch package list to get %-installed by package?

2024-09-05 Thread Jaron Kent-Dobias
On Thursday, 5 September 2024 at 15:36 (-0500), David C. Rankin wrote: I was curious about the frequency that packages in extra and core are installed by Arch users. Is that metadata captured anywhere and is there any way a user can query it? Check out pkgstats: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/

Any way to query the Arch package list to get %-installed by package?

2024-09-05 Thread David C. Rankin
All, Devs, I was curious about the frequency that packages in extra and core are installed by Arch users. Is that metadata captured anywhere and is there any way a user can query it? What sparked this curiosity is that I follow the package feeds closely checking for version changes I may

Re: Arch Linux public upload server

2024-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-09-05 at 18:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Often snippets are sufficient, so that a pasting service is not > necessary. But if one should become necessary, it would be > unfavourable in my opinion if you had to copy one and the same thing > from one pasting service to another. PS: O

Re: Arch Linux public upload server

2024-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-09-05 at 17:42 +0200, Rein Fernhout (Levitating) wrote: > [snip] So I do a agree with Polarian that we should first consider "do > we want a pasting service" [snip] Hi, how often is a pasting service really required, when reporting an issue that might or might not be a packaging issu

Re: Arch Linux public upload server

2024-09-05 Thread Lucie Scarlet
The main issues the way I see it are: Moderation - How would we prevent spam/abuse? Pastebins can quickly be subject to spam, scams, abuse and more. Lifetime - Especially if there will be more than just text, it will eat up resources quickly. Though, even with just text it can take up a lot of s

Re: Arch Linux public upload server

2024-09-05 Thread Rein Fernhout (Levitating)
I sent this message yesterday but I accidentally forgot to add the mailing list as a recipient. Original Message Subject: Re: Arch Linux public upload server Date: 2024-09-04 14:28 From: "Rein Fernhout (Levitating)" To: Robin Candau On 2024-09-04 09:56, Robin Candau wrote:

Re: Arch Linux public upload server

2024-09-05 Thread Orhun Parmaksiz
Hello again, Frankly, I find the topic of discussion brought up in the last 3-4 emails to be counterproductive and off-topic from what I intended to discuss in this thread. That being said, I’d like to thank Robin Candau for steering the conversation in the right direction and clarifying some of

Re: Arch Linux public upload server

2024-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-09-05 at 10:11 +0200, Robin Candau wrote: > I'm aware you said you intend no offense (and I'm not doubting that) > but, frankly, implying that Orhun acted with its personal interest in > mind when proposing to offer an instance of his paste service to users > under the Arch infra/dom

Re: Arch Linux public upload server

2024-09-05 Thread Robin Candau
On 9/5/24 3:28 AM, Polarian wrote: Hello, Hello, I don't think it was ever mentioned that such a paste service offered by Arch Linux would become *the official one* and that its usage would be enforced in any way when requesting support or something (in opposition to other similar services)