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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:50:17 +0800 |
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W.Kenworthy wrote: |
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> Not sure that is an official site ... |
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> The question came from a couple of posts where debian is showing ~17000 |
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> packages and Fedora a couple of thousand less. They were bemoaning the |
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> size of the install media. The difference between distros is most |
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> likely little used packages, and the fact that rpm's for instance split |
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> headers and sometimes aux functions into separate packages, |
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> approximately doubling the package count. I presume debian do the same. |
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> billk |
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to make a fair comparison then you need to count the number of |
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.src.rpm's - one .src.rpm makes the -devel and auxillary packages as |
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well as the main package. |
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