Re: further package removals/potential package removals

[Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta gmail com>]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:30:33 -0200, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto 
>  The best thing to do about that is to make a pol: send periodic reports to
> be filled by members of Fedora comunities and trying to measure what is
> being used, by who and under what circunstancies. 

Relying on a measure of current popularity run the risk of entrenching
the status quo in terms of user demographics and technologies.. not a
particularly good idea for a distro that is suppose to be pushing new
promising technology in quickly.  And polls of this nature are subject
to extreme 'sweaky wheel' bias where a small minority who care deeply
about keeping their applications in could very well respond in a
disproportionate manner compared to people who just use default apps
and don't care enough to respond.  Not sure if its worth the effort to
mount a poll that can't be used in a quantitative way.

-jef