Am 03.06.2011 15:15, schrieb Björn Persson:
Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 03.06.2011 10:19, schrieb Ivana Hutarova Varekova:
>> do Fedora have some statistics of how many users install concrete fedora
>> package?
>
> this is impossible!
> from where will you get the counts?
> from yum-downloads - well which mirrors?
>
> maybe somebody believes he have a methopd for a statistics
> but the truth is that no counts are the reality as for installations
There's no reason why Debian's Popcon couldn't be ported to Fedora, but
Popcon
is something that users enable voluntarily (and it must be, because if it were
on by default it would be spyware), so it counts only those users who want to
be counted which may skew the statistics in some ways.
and that is why i call such statistics "useless" and wasted time as long
whoever spends work in it knows that the values are useless and decides
to spent his time while he is realizing that