package popularity ratings

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 22:25 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 03:53:18PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  I got this bug assigned to yum the other day:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446836
> > 
> > it's not really a yum item, yet, b/c yum can really only USE the data,
> > not generate it.
> > 
> > However, I don't know where it should go. Is anyone working on this sort
> > of thing?
> 
> Isn't any package popularity rating going to be hugely skewed such that
> the 'default install set' packages are basically always rated top, making
> rankings of dubious value
> 

that's been my general impression which is why I was curious who wanted
to look at it since my overt bias against them is a bit discouraging :)

-sv