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On Saturday 15 March 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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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 |
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> > | 3rd 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. |
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> > By my count (ls -lshaR /usr/portage | grep ebuild | wc -l) I get |
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> > 24,708 ebuilds (and that's from a sync at 0000-5) |
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> Cool. Since some packages have multiple ebuilds, to get an |
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> approximate number of unique packages in portage, I did something |
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> 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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It's been a while since I ran that one myself. |
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12618 packages! Didnt realise it was so many. And just the sunrise |
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overlay has 943. |
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That's probably more packages than even Debian has ... |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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