From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9W38-0006Ss-Cu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:54:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7SMqACC016585; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:52:10 GMT Received: from ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony2.iinet.net.au (mail-iinet.icp-qv1-irony2.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7SMmcZ4012741 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:48:39 GMT Received: from 203-59-214-61.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO moriah.localdomain) (203.59.214.61) by ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony2.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 29 Aug 2005 06:50:25 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84CD985DF1 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:50:24 +0800 (WST) Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19036-16 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:50:18 +0800 (WST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE4667D3 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:50:17 +0800 (WST) Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo? From: "W.Kenworthy" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <029d01c5ac0e$97276c30$0501a8c0@croatus> References: <029d01c5ac0e$97276c30$0501a8c0@croatus> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:50:17 +0800 Message-Id: <1125269417.20471.5.camel@bunyip> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain X-Archives-Salt: f00186f3-58ad-4efe-bdad-8af4b8059e9c X-Archives-Hash: 5aecc771255b72349197387ed3c0be3e Not sure that is an official site ... The question came from a couple of posts where debian is showing ~17000 packages and Fedora a couple of thousand less. They were bemoaning the size of the install media. The difference between distros is most likely little used packages, and the fact that rpm's for instance split headers and sometimes aux functions into separate packages, approximately doubling the package count. I presume debian do the same. billk On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 16:24 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > Maybe it's me - I don't get it. > www.gentoo-portage.com > > front page ... > > 19884 ebuilds, 9986 Packages, Last Updated At 18:07:35 GMT > > John D ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list