Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:42:34 +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: <86vc8p5cat.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <D73C4630-5467-4276-84B8-5EEB7CB1A8EA@FreeBSD.org> (David Chisnall's message of "Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:06:30 -0400") References: <20130317212401.0000376f@unknown> <D73C4630-5467-4276-84B8-5EEB7CB1A8EA@FreeBSD.org>
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David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> writes: > 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. I don't think there are many such cases. The reverse is far more common: Linux distros usually ship separate packages for libraries, binaries, documentation and headers (and so should we). You can get a meaningful comparison by counting distfiles on our side and SRPMs / DSCs on the Linux side. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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