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 1E9lf9-0004Ox-6x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:35:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7TFWJFC031550; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:32:19 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7TFSIl2008547 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:28:19 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1E9laQ-0006cT-Eb for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:30:14 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1E9lbO-0006cd-Rv for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:31:14 +0100 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:31:11 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo? Message-ID: <20050829163111.7519be94@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <1125224277.5526.57.camel@rattus.localdomain> References: <1125224277.5526.57.camel@rattus.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Mon__29_Aug_2005_16_31_11_+0100_BiIXtqtAR.OiXfaM; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 9a4aeb33-31f6-46ed-b182-22b758430b3f X-Archives-Hash: 4c0f5337a8debd549786c3fd84d57a6e --Signature_Mon__29_Aug_2005_16_31_11_+0100_BiIXtqtAR.OiXfaM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:17:56 +0800 William Kenworthy wrote: | Is there a link that states how many packages are available in gentoo? | Stable, ~x86 etc? Note that such a number wouldn't be useful for comparing with, say, other distributions or ports, because a) we can SLOT things, so we don't need separate foo-1, foo-2 and foo-3 packages, and b) we don't need to do a zillion foo, foo-python, foo-perl etc packages because of USE flags. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Mon__29_Aug_2005_16_31_11_+0100_BiIXtqtAR.OiXfaM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDEypC96zL6DUtXhERAi1VAJ42vqNeu6LcTEXOVqM2t5Xbt/z7VACgkOLM zlsLIhW7MiM4X3j3lGDSNls= =Tkwe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Mon__29_Aug_2005_16_31_11_+0100_BiIXtqtAR.OiXfaM-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list