On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 08:54:02PM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > W. Martin Borgert schrieb: > > > It's difficult to change all occurrences at the same time. Why > > not start with the release announcement and explicitly say 1x000 > > *source* packages? Let's change it in other documents/pages when > > we're at them. Counting binary packages feels a little bit like > > lying... > > What about: > > ... and more than 23,000 other packages ready to use software packages > (build from over 12,000 source packages). > > For the end user the number of the binary packages is more interesting > than the source packages. With that we have both: The interesting > number and the true number.
I think it's the other way around. Users don't really care, for example, that we build 10 binary packages out of the iceweasel source, or that we build a couple dozen binary packages out of glibc. We include iceweasel 3.0, and we include glibc 2.7. That's what's meaningful to the users. noah
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