The Risks of Using a PPA

The single most popular ppa you can get stats for is empty. It wasn't true on Ubuntu or mint or anything else So they have to add a disclaimer the system D in this ppaYeah, okay, I can see how you can break your system Yeah, here's another example A developer could just stop maintaining a ppa And so all these systems are apt update apt upgrade and they're checking ppa for package updates But there's nothing literally nothing in that ppa. On those pieces of software. The big ones that people actually use are Pop o s mint if you're looking at like numbers of users After Ubuntu mint is probably the next biggestI wouldn't be right here And

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