David Chisnall <thera...@freebsd.org> writes: > It's quite difficult to do meaningful comparisons. For example, we > have a port for gcc 4.7, but Debian has, last time I counted, over ten > distinct packages for each GCC release. There are other places where > we have split things up into multiple ports, but other operating > systems use a single one.
I don't think there are many such cases. The reverse is far more common: Linux distros usually ship separate packages for libraries, binaries, documentation and headers (and so should we). You can get a meaningful comparison by counting distfiles on our side and SRPMs / DSCs on the Linux side. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
