On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 05:52:59PM +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > A bit of statistics for consideration. > > In Debian/trixie there are currently 68,756 packages (I just > downloaded and counted). Of those, 11,877 are libraries that have > exactly one reverse dependency. That is 17% of the effort that > could have been spent on something else. And users would notice > no difference if all those packages were bundled into the one > package they exist for.
I think this kind of counting must also take into account libraries that only have exactly one reverse dependency, *but* it is built from the same source package as the library itself, e.g. libaria2-0 for aria2. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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