Maybe counting source packages would get better approximation? Or counting unique upstream project URL's.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison >> Resent-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:48:33 +0000 (UTC) >> Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:47:19 -0700 >> From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 17:58 +0200, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: >> > I am just curious which distribution have the most packaged Open >> > Source software. It seems to me this is Debian? Is there a good >> > comparison (numbers, statistics, etc)? >> >> Debian, by a long shot. 26,000 packages. Next closest competitor >> (Ubuntu) has 23,000. Most (all?) of the RPM-based distributions are >> below 10,000. >> > > and if you put the headers back to the libs where they belong, you could > easily half debians packages. > > Wesnoth = one package in gentoo > Wesnoth = almost a douzend packages in debian. > > so the results are skewed. > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Fran Lebowitz - "You're only has good as your last haircut." -- [email protected] mailing list
