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> References: <20130317212401.0000376f@unknown> <D73C4630-5467-4276-84B8-5EEB7CB1A8EA@FreeBSD.org> <86vc8p5cat.fsf@ds4.des.no> <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. --=20 http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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