Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:17:56 +0800 William Kenworthy
<billk@×××××××××.au> wrote:
| Is there a link that states how many packages are available in gentoo?
| Stable, ~x86 etc?

Note that such a number wouldn't be useful for comparing with, say,
other distributions or ports, because a) we can SLOT things, so we
don't need separate foo-1, foo-2 and foo-3 packages, and b) we don't
need to do a zillion foo, foo-python, foo-perl etc packages because of
USE flags.

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