On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:23 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:09:43 +0200, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: > > > Debian, by a long shot. 26,000 packages. Next closest competitor > > (Ubuntu) has 23,000. > > Both of those split many packages into a two, with the headers in a > separate -devel package. One of the reasons why such comparisons do > little more than justify Oscar Wilde's view of statistics. > > Not to mention Debian/Ubuntu does thing like, for example for psycopg, there is
psycopg1 for python 2.4 psycopg1 for python 2.5 psycopg2 for python 2.4 psycopg2 for python 2.5 That's 4 different packages for one piece of software. Whereas in Gentoo it's just one package: dev-python/psycopg. -a -- [email protected] mailing list
