On Saturday 15 March 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: > > | Hmmm. There are many thousand ebuilds in the tree. Many more in > > | 3rd party overlays. Your idea fixes 1 problem in 1 ebuild. > > > > Just for the sake of amusment and to give a sense of perspective. > > By my count (ls -lshaR /usr/portage | grep ebuild | wc -l) I get > > 24,708 ebuilds (and that's from a sync at 0000-5) > > Cool. Since some packages have multiple ebuilds, to get an > approximate number of unique packages in portage, I did something > like this > > $ find /usr/portage | grep 'metadata\.xml' | wc -l > 12618 > > Still an excellent number...and this is only for the official tree!
It's been a while since I ran that one myself. 12618 packages! Didnt realise it was so many. And just the sunrise overlay has 943. That's probably more packages than even Debian has ... -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
