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Re: Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison



On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
> 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.

Gentoo and FreeBSD (and others) include some packages that do 
not meet Debian "free" requirements.


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