On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> wrote: > My bad. I did the tests a while back, and the number "30,000" is > actually for the no. of ebuilds in portage. The no. of files is > actually ~113,000 (difference comes because every package has a > manifest+changelog+metadata.xml+patches).
Further refinement: ~92,000 Removed metadata/ (-28,000 which won't be around in the git tree), and ChangeLog (-13,000 which would be redundant, and should be auto-generated alongwith metadata prior to distribution via rsync. Hey, this is something that needs to be done too!) -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team