Re: Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison
On 2008-06-17 22:07 +0200, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Count source packages. That gets away from distro specific
> slicing and dicing of packages, and better represents the effort taken
> to package software.
True.
> I still think that Debian is ahead by source package count, but
> I do not have concrete data, off hand.
A quick web search shows that Debian sid and Gentoo are roughly at par
with 12000+ source packages¹ each. Both are outnumbered by FreeBSD
ports, though; they have more than 18000 packages available².
Sven
¹ http://packages.gentoo.org/categories
² http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
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