Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 23:23:42 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are the package updates so slow? Message-ID: <6a155661aa006d5224756ffd7c5815862563fecb.camel@riseup.net> In-Reply-To: <ad476ca7b677f5e7daf0173ede25791dc8092ef9.camel@riseup.net> References: <NF_wwVb--3-9@tutanota.com> <20221030072116.1a1d7401abe274145a95f12a@sohara.org> <c2d9c126-0ae4-c6e0-dab5-a215b8588d7c@gmail.com> <NFetzu5--R-9@tutanota.com> <ad476ca7b677f5e7daf0173ede25791dc8092ef9.camel@riseup.net>
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On Sun, 2022-10-30 at 23:21 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-10-30 at 22:59 +0100, iio7@tutanota.com wrote:
> > By comparison, Arch Linux has 13592 packages. Even though this is a
> > little under half as much, they get binary updates out daily.
> >=20
> > Debian has, in unstable, 167965 packages! Which - if you run unstable -
> > also get daily updates.
>=20
> Arch packages seldom spilt packages from upstream.
^^^^^^^^ software ^^^=C3=AEnto multiple
packages
>=20
> For example Debian has got a package for systemd and another one for
> udev and another one for udev header files and another one ...
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/systemd
>=20
> The Arch Linux package named systemd, contains systemd as provided by
> upstream. IOW included to the package are udev and udev headers, as well
> as other systemd parts.
>=20
> FreeBSD might have another policy, given that it sometimes need to port
> Linux software to become FreeBSD compatible.
>=20
> The count of packages has less to do with the amount of work. It doesn't
> matter that Debian provides tons of packages for the same, that is one
> Arch package, the work is the same. If software is ported from Linux to
> BSD it might require some additional work.
>=20
>=20
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