RE: how many packages are there?

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> > 
> > reports some 4383 packages. (This was the source I expected to report the
> > largest number, as it should represent all packages from all ports,
> > including obsolete ones. The report from the Maintainers file seems to
> > contradict this.)
> > 
> 
> dselect tells me I have some 4600 packages in its list.  So this sounds like
> the closest number.

I'm not sure just how much of /contrib, /non-free, /non-us, that you have
available in your archives, but why aren't all of these packages that
dselect presents to you in the master packages list for i-386?

Thanks,

Dwarf
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