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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by codedokode on Friday November 25, 2016 @07:01AM (#13036096)
Maybe you should ask them better. For example you could ask for help on the home page of your project or in the beginning of a tutorial. Or maybe they do not want to paticipate. Is it right to ignore this and turn analytics on by default?
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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by lewiseason on Friday November 25, 2016 @08:23AM (#13036527)
The Debian installer gets this right: it prompts you during the install whether it can collect information about installed packages for popcon[1]

[1] http://popcon.debian.org/

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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by majewsky on Saturday November 26, 2016 @08:01AM (#13043285)
I never understood why popcon is necessary. Couldn't you achieve about the same result by just counting downloads on the package mirrors?
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