Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:06:30 -0400 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Did someone compare the number of ports with packages in Linux distros? Message-ID: <D73C4630-5467-4276-84B8-5EEB7CB1A8EA@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20130317212401.0000376f@unknown> References: <20130317212401.0000376f@unknown>
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It's quite difficult to do meaningful comparisons. For example, we have = a port for gcc 4.7, but Debian has, last time I counted, over ten = distinct packages for each GCC release. There are other places where we = have split things up into multiple ports, but other operating systems = use a single one. David On 17 Mar 2013, at 16:24, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> = wrote: > Hi, >=20 > does someone know about some kind of statistics which compare the > number of ports/packages on Linux distros? I search something which > makes sense to compare with the number of our ports, not something = which > takes e.g. "qt4" and "qt4 includes" as different entities. >=20 > Yes, I know that even such a number is like apples and oranges, as the > "linux base system" consists of packages too, and that the "linux base > system" may contain stuff which we have in ports. >=20 > The idea is to have something which may be useful in rapid-prototyping > discussions. >=20 > Please CC me in replies. >=20 > Bye, > Alexander. >=20 > --=20 > http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D = B0063FE7 > http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D = 72077137 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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