Re: [gentoo-user] Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison

2008-06-17 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
: [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

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison

2008-06-17 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
On 06/17/2008 08:20 PM, Edward Hades wrote: Maybe counting source packages would get better approximation? Or counting unique upstream project URL's. Counting the lines of source code would be most appropriate. cheers Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison

2008-06-15 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
Hi Gentoo users I am just curious which distribution have the most packaged Open Source software. It seems to me this is Gentoo. Is there a good comparison (numbers, statistics, etc)? cheers Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison

2008-06-15 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
On 06/15/2008 08:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: How would you measure it? Number of packages wouldn't work, because distros split up packages differently. Most accurate would be number of upstream projects cheers Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature