On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:50:17 +0800 W.Kenworthy wrote: > 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
to make a fair comparison then you need to count the number of .src.rpm's - one .src.rpm makes the -devel and auxillary packages as well as the main package. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
