My comparison is done with the programmes I use most often.... Showing package name, Gentoo version, Debian version.....
Kopete, 6.2, NA K3b, 0.8.1-r1, 0.8 Ksambaplugin, 0.4b, NA Samba, 3.0_alpha24-r1, 2.2.3a-12 Mozilla, 1.3-r2, 1.2 ?? Gnucash, 1.8.4, 1.8.1-1 Evolution, 1.3.92, 1.0.5-1 Mplayer, 0.9.0_rc5, NA Kmplayer, 0.7.4a, NA Perhaps not very scientific but it has me satisfied. Regards, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Gregan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 June 2003 1:41 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gentoo (was Re: OpenBSD) << File: packages-sorted.csv >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:51:19PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Read my lips. Take up the challenge. Right. I've taken a list of packages from [1], and compared that to the list of packages in Debian testing[2]. Note that there is a good chance that the Debian testing list is a little out of date compared to what is actually available in the testing tree. The same may be true of the Gentoo list, but I can't comment on that. For each package/version pair listed at [1], I've checked the package/version pair listed at [2] and generated a list of packages and the version that Gentoo and Debian testing are offering. Attached[3] is a comma-separated value list, containing a list of Packages, and the versions that are reported to be available according to [1] and [2]. In most cases where the two distributions are not equal, Debian testing is coming out ahead. There are a few cases where it appears Gentoo has an advantage (e.g. raidtools), but this is because Debian offers raidtools 0.4x and 0.9x separately. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/sys-apps/index.xml [2] http://packages.debian.org/testing/allpackages.html [3] I don't generally like attaching files to emails that are destined for a mailing list, but in this case the file is smaller than most of the top-posting full-quoting emails that I receive from this list. Cheers, -mjg -- Matthew Gregan |/ /| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
