Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:33:18 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Did someone compare the number of ports with packages in Linux distros? Message-ID: <86li9l54e9.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <86vc8p5cat.fsf@ds4.des.no> ("Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rg?= =?utf-8?Q?rav=22's?= message of "Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:42:34 %2B0100") References: <20130317212401.0000376f@unknown> <D73C4630-5467-4276-84B8-5EEB7CB1A8EA@FreeBSD.org> <86vc8p5cat.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes: > You can get a meaningful comparison by counting distfiles on our side > and SRPMs / DSCs on the Linux side. 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). DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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