This one time, at band camp, Jim Penny said:
> Wow, an actual testable hypothesis. Is non-free growing relative to
> main? Is it growing absolutely? Could we have some numbers on how non-free
> has changed across the years?
>
> My own impression is that it is actually getting smaller, both
> relatively, and probably absolutely.
>
> If so, it is my opinion that this acrimonious debate is not worth
> the electrons used to illuminate it.
>
>
> Jim Penny
FWIW:
Potato:
steve:~$ zgrep 'Package: ' Sources.gz | wc -l
220
Woody:
steve:~$ zgrep 'Package: ' Sources.gz | wc -l
208
Sid (updated 11/13):
steve:~$ grep 'Package: '
/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_non-free_source_Sources | wc -l
233
This is just a quick grep of Sources.gz from the non-free tree. I did
not yet check previous releases, but it doesn't appear at a glance to
have grown appreciably in several years.
Steve (who is not a d-d)
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