On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 12:24, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:39:52 +0800 Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | how does one count the # of packages supported by the current portage? > | > | ls -laR | wc -l definately does not work > | eupdatedb would work, since it counts down to 0. > | > | There's got to be another way. > > find ./ -name '*.ebuild' | cut -d/ -f 2-3 | uniq | wc -l
I intially thought that wouldn't work since they will return duplicate packages (eg: diff versions) I didn't realise that uniq could have sorted that out. Cool.. 8297 packages in portage. _huge_ and all in 1 place. > > Note that comparisons between Gentoo package counts and that of any > other distribution is not fair or valid due to the way we don't need to > do multiple packages for programs built with different options. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:07:02 up 4:08, 6 users, load average: 1.03, 0.95, 0.59 -- [email protected] mailing list
