Alexe Stefan <stefanalexe48@gmail.com> writes:

> My finger slipped in my last mail.
> How do you see how many people are using a package?

Bug reports, mentions on forums, mentions on the mailing list, mentions
on IRC, etc.

Or, to put it another way: when you break it, enough people
shout. Gentoo doesn't have telemetry so we have to go off things like
this.