Re: Number of Debian packages available.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:30:41AM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> Hello, all!
> I have searched Wikipedia and the Debian wiki. I have Googled. I am clearly
> using the wrong search terms, although I tried rewording in sundry different
> ways.
>
> Approximately, in round terms, how may packages are available in Debian
> (Squeeze?)
> 1. in main
> 2. in main, contrib and non-free
See Debian Reference on Debian site which should be displaying such
number scanned last night :-) I just updated.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#listofdebianarchivearea
area number of packages
main 38064
contrib 231
non-free 508
This is for upcoming wheezy :)
> I have an idea of roughly 20,000 in my head, but cannot remember why I think
> it and it may be vastly out. Nor into which of my two categories the figure
> falls, if by any miracle it is correct.
Off by half
Osamu
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