On Sunday 01 April 2012 15:01:01 Sven Burmeister wrote:
You claim that disregarding the number of packages in a repo is more valid than taking them into account when it comes to assessing and comparing repos' downloads. I claim that you are wrong in that regard. BTW: you also ignored the last paragraph of my email, but anyway.
You claimed that people only use 3-4 packages from the KDE3 repo, I claimed that this is unlikely since the KDE3 core packages + Qt are already far more than 3-4. And either you are wrong claiming that you maintain those packages, i.e. add patches, or you are wrong claiming that none of the KDE3 users that use the repo want the patched packages. The latter is my bold claim, i.e. people who use a repo want updated packages. :)
Again, I do not update 480 packages in a month. Even if all the users used all the 480 packages.
You forget that whatever you claim for the KDE3 repo is valid for other repos as well. People do not install all packages from KUA, KDE4 or whatever repo either, so user numbers for those increase as well.
KDE4 includes the most necessary packages, part of the KDE distribution, so a person who wants KDE 4.8 installs a significant part of that repository. Also KDE 4.8 is not included in the main repo.
I never claimed that my figures are quantitatively correct. In fact I came to the conclusion that one cannot show anything with those numbers – which you try to do nevertheless in order to prove how popular KDE3 is. All I claim is that my approach, i.e. taking the number of packages available within a repo into account when assessing the download numbers of a repo makes more sense than your approach of comparing just the numbers without any regard to the repos' properties.
Then take into account other things as well: the number of packages in a typical KDE3 installation, the number of similar packages in the official repo, the number of packages that exclude the use of each other (styles, window decorations), the number of users who use only single KDE3 applications etc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org