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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:58:15 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        advocacy@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Did someone compare the number of ports with packages in Linux distros?
Message-ID:  <20130318205815.00001cb5@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <86li9l54e9.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:33:18 +0100
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote:

> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > You can get a meaningful comparison by counting distfiles on our
> > side and SRPMs / DSCs on the Linux side.
>=20
> I asked a coworker who's a Debian developer; he says Debian has ~30k
> packages from ~20k distinct sources, which is in the same ballpark as
> the ports tree (~24k ports).

Thanks, this is something which helps.

Bye,
Alexander.

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