It's quite difficult to do meaningful comparisons. For example, we have a port for gcc 4.7, but Debian has, last time I counted, over ten distinct packages for each GCC release. There are other places where we have split things up into multiple ports, but other operating systems use a single one.
David On 17 Mar 2013, at 16:24, Alexander Leidinger <alexan...@leidinger.net> wrote: > Hi, > > does someone know about some kind of statistics which compare the > number of ports/packages on Linux distros? I search something which > makes sense to compare with the number of our ports, not something which > takes e.g. "qt4" and "qt4 includes" as different entities. > > Yes, I know that even such a number is like apples and oranges, as the > "linux base system" consists of packages too, and that the "linux base > system" may contain stuff which we have in ports. > > The idea is to have something which may be useful in rapid-prototyping > discussions. > > Please CC me in replies. > > Bye, > Alexander. > > -- > http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 > http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
