Ubuntu Will No Longer Track Which Packages Users Install (OMG! Ubuntu!)
Ubuntu Will No Longer Track Which Packages Users Install (OMG! Ubuntu!)
[Distributions] Posted Jul 15, 2020 21:57 UTC (Wed) by corbet
The OMG! Ubuntu! site reports
that the Debian "popularity contest" application is being removed from
Ubuntu. "But with Snaps, Flatpaks, PPAs and other avenues giving
developers more direct ways to market to users (not to mention more
accurate numbers on how many people use their software) the relative merits
of 'what's popular in the repos' is …Well, a touch moot.
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