On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 07:36:44AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > $ lynx -dump http://www.debian.org/ > Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with more > than 8710 [46]packages > > Hogwash. It's probably twice that many. > Use round figures unless you intend to update weekly. > Or say 'tens of thousands'. > $ dpkg -l \*|wc -l > 21564 > $ grep-available . --count > 15343
Only packages in stable/main count for this number. It is only updated when we do a new release (I can't say how it was counted exactly though, I get only 8672[1], but perhaps we removed some packages in the point releases) [1] I got this number by going to gluck.debian.org:/org/packages.debian.org/files/archive/ (method for DDs only, obviously) and executing: grep -h ^Package: stable_*main*Packages | sed -e 's/Package: //' | sort | uniq | wc -l Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/
