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) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Stephen Gran | And the silence came surging softly | |steve@lobefin.net | backwards When the plunging hooves were | |http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | gone... -- Walter de La Mare, "The | | | Listeners" | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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