On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 06:23:45PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > 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 It also may not be productive if you don't stat the usage of the programs. Debian data for example does this and it tells you that people install KDE then don't use it (but don't delete it). No suprise there but its important to know.