> Package repos don't provide analytics for developers They can. Debian does it on an opt-in basis: http://popcon.debian.org/ http://popcon.debian.org/ > sea

> Package repos don't provide analytics for developers They can. Debian does it on an opt-in basis: http://popcon.debian.org/ http://popcon.debian.org/ > search for discovery You can use text search on APT repositories, and probably other ones. > malware and abuse detection that scales to millions of apps We don't need millions of apps. A thing I like with distribution repos is curation: only trusted people can add new packages. Of course it means less packages, but it also means there is no junk at all. Also, whenever I needed to do something, either F-Droid already had an application for it, or there wasn't any open source app doing what I needed.