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On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:23 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:09:43 +0200, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: |
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> > Debian, by a long shot. 26,000 packages. Next closest competitor |
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> > (Ubuntu) has 23,000. |
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> Both of those split many packages into a two, with the headers in a |
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> separate -devel package. One of the reasons why such comparisons do |
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> little more than justify Oscar Wilde's view of statistics. |
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Not to mention Debian/Ubuntu does thing like, for example for psycopg, |
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there is |
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psycopg1 for python 2.4 |
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psycopg1 for python 2.5 |
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psycopg2 for python 2.4 |
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psycopg2 for python 2.5 |
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That's 4 different packages for one piece of software. Whereas in |
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Gentoo it's just one package: dev-python/psycopg. |
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-a |
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