From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 21 15:10:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDCA716A405 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:10:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wundram@beenic.net) Received: from mail.beenic.net (mail.beenic.net [83.246.72.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A235A13C4E3 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:10:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wundram@beenic.net) Received: from [192.168.1.38] (a89-182-158-149.net-htp.de [89.182.158.149]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.beenic.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED89CA44529; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:10:14 +0100 (CET) From: "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" Organization: Beenic Networks GmbH To: jamesh@lanl.gov Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:10:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080219114803.V2675@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080221065846.GB98271@demeter.hydra> <1203605931.2479.49.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <1203605931.2479.49.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802211610.29520.wundram@beenic.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Linux distro X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:10:17 -0000 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