Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:10:29 +0100 From: "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@beenic.net> To: jamesh@lanl.gov Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Linux distro Message-ID: <200802211610.29520.wundram@beenic.net> In-Reply-To: <1203605931.2479.49.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov> References: <20080219114803.V2675@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080221065846.GB98271@demeter.hydra> <1203605931.2479.49.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov>
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Am Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008 15:58:51 schrieb James Harrison: > > > 8. Most extensive collection of third party software (over 18000 ) only > > > second to Debian. > > > > Looking back at it, I'm surprised I didn't mention that. > > Gentoo has over 24 thousand ebuilds, where an ebuild is their equivalent > of a port: Err, don't confuse ebuilds with packages. A package is a piece of software (which is the equivalent of a port), whereas an ebuild is an install script for a specific version of a package. Normally, there's more than one version of a package (more than one ebuild) available for a package, which makes the ebuild count higher than the FreeBSD ports count, but the package count lower (somewhere above 12000). This doesn't count slotted ebuilds: for example, Gentoo has just one gtk package, which contains several ebuilds for slot 12 which is gtk-1.2.x and several ebuilds for slot 20, which is gtk-2.x (different slots are treated as different packages by the system internally), whereas FreeBSD has a gtk12 and a gtk20 port, which installs the respective versions. So, basically whatever numbers you take, they can't be compared directly anyway, but I guess that the number of ports is still higher than the Gentoo amortized package count would be. -- Heiko Wundram Product & Application Development
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