On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: > | Hmmm. There are many thousand ebuilds in the tree. Many more in 3rd > | party overlays. Your idea fixes 1 problem in 1 ebuild. > > Just for the sake of amusment and to give a sense of perspective. By > my count (ls -lshaR /usr/portage | grep ebuild | wc -l) I get 24,708 > ebuilds (and that's from a sync at 0000-5)
Cool. Since some packages have multiple ebuilds, to get an approximate number of unique packages in portage, I did something like this $ find /usr/portage | grep 'metadata\.xml' | wc -l 12618 Still an excellent number...and this is only for the official tree! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list