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.
Don't these people have access to the worldwideintarwebthingy? why download media you don't need? just install the packages you want over a network. Where does the thousands come from with fedora? I count 965 source rpms on a fedora mirror i looked at. on the same mirror there were 1483 binary rpm's. of those 299 have "devel" in the filename, so will have been from a "split" build - ie one foo.src.rpm may become foo.i386.rpm, foo-devel.i386.rpm, foo-xorg.i386.rpm, foo-doc.i386.rpm etc. This filter shows me how many binary rpm's have unique names up the the first hyphen, : grep i386.rpm fedora.filelist |cut -d- -f1|sort|uniq|wc -l which gives 693 - but I don't know if thats an accurate way to tell if a built package comes from the same source package. But my real question is - how do you get thousands of fedora packages? so you have to scratch around private repositories looking for the ones with the stuff you want? >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. yes they do. usually called -dev rather than -devel from what i can see. > > billk > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
