Really?
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| Author | Content |
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| Bob_Robertson Jul 26, 2009 6:04 PM EDT |
70,000? So Ubuntu has nearly 3 times as many packages as Debian Unstable? This was from this morning, with Debian-Multimedia added in for good measure: ===== Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available. Information about 26238 package(s) was updated. ===== Now I agree that 6K compares as small next to 26K, but where does that 70K come from I wonder? |
| jdixon Jul 26, 2009 9:47 PM EDT |
A wc -l allpackages.txt (downloaded from http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/) gives 28205 lines, some of which compose a header. The equivalent file for Jaunty is 30179 lines. So I'd say there are more like 30000 packages. Now, how many of those are meta packages, etc.; I can't say. Oh, in comparison, the list for Sid gives 32993. Also in comparison, the full Slackware 12.2 install seems to be around 1000 packages. |
| caitlyn Aug 05, 2009 12:01 PM EDT |
Small repositories are better? Gee, let's take choices away from people! That'll make them happy...`NOT! One reason I decided not to run CentOS outside of my business uses is that I really don't want to have to build my own packages... lots of them... for things I use every day. Even with all the third party repositories the choices available for a desktop (not server) user on CentOS are paltry. |
| Steven_Rosenber Aug 05, 2009 1:53 PM EDT |
Though I have enormous respect for Dag Wieers and the rest of those who are bringing packages into CentOS/RHEL, I have to agree that it's hard to run CentOS as a general (or specific) desktop simply because the packages are not there. Fedora, however, has pretty much everything I need, but I haven't yet had the itch to actually install it. |
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