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Ubuntu Will No Longer Track Which Packages Users Install (OMG! Ubuntu!)

([Distributions] Jul 15, 2020 21:57 UTC (Wed) (corbet))


The OMG! Ubuntu! site [1]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. "



[1] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/ubuntu-popularity-contest-removed

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