Re: counting packages (was Re: Fedora Package Status of Aug 12, 2008)

2008-08-20 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 12:44 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 01:35 +0200, Christian Iseli wrote: Owners stats: - 6517 packages - 10799 binary rpms in devel Darn, I was afraid of that. We are all perfectly aware that one package (tarball + spec file) can

Re: counting packages (was Re: Fedora Package Status of Aug 12, 2008)

2008-08-20 Thread Jonathan Roberts
And I think some of the binaries may be repeated for certain arches, right? But to me, saying 10,000 isn't disingenuous. It's simple and effective and essentially truthful. And it's what users can get, which is the central issue. How does our terminology compare to other distributions?

Re: counting packages (was Re: Fedora Package Status of Aug 12, 2008)

2008-08-20 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2008/8/19 Karsten 'quaid' Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Owners stats: - 6517 packages - 10799 binary rpms in devel Darn, I was afraid of that. We are all perfectly aware that one package (tarball + spec file) can yield more than one binary rpm. Would it be better to consistently start using a

counting packages (was Re: Fedora Package Status of Aug 12, 2008)

2008-08-19 Thread Karsten 'quaid' Wade
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 01:35 +0200, Christian Iseli wrote: Owners stats: - 6517 packages - 10799 binary rpms in devel Darn, I was afraid of that. We are all perfectly aware that one package (tarball + spec file) can yield more than one binary rpm. So what are we counting when we count in