Re: how many packages are there?

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>]

"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com> writes:

> 
> > 
> > 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 have concatenated all the Packges files from my mirror into a
file `available/potato'. 

     Grep reports:
 
bob:vc-/1:bob>grep -c Package: available/potato 
4585

     This mirror was last updated January 9.  This is i-386 only.

Bob
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