On Sunday 16 March 2008, 13:22, Emil Beinroth wrote: > > 27602 > > That is not really fair, we do not have foo-qt3, foo-qt4, > foo-mysql, foo-psql .. We have "foo" with useflags. > > So either remove the -dev, -qt3, -qt4, virtual packages, [..] from > that list, or calculate the number of use-flag permutations possible > for our packages.
You are damn right. I overlooked the fact that a single gentoo ebuild, depending on USE flags, can provide and install the equivalent of many debian packages. So, calculating a number using automated tools becomes quite difficult, since each package needs to be examined and compared with the corresponding offering in the other distro. A (very) rough estimate could be probably done by unifying each foo-* Debian packages into a single entry, which results in something like $ grep '^<dt>' allpackages | \ sed 's/.*<a href[^>]*>\([^<]*\)<\/a>.*/\1/g' | \ cut -d '-' -f 1 | \ uniq | wc -l 12225 Comments (also about the methodology used to calculate this) are left as an exercise for the reader :-) > I guess that gentoo beats debian :) I hope so too! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
