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