Re: Package count on Debian homepage

2015-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > If we decide to update this to address this info, let's update only > https://www.debian.org/intro/about and its diff should be more like: I don't know if the Debian website is the right place to provide metrics about the quantity of source/bi

Re: Package count on Debian homepage

2015-02-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 07:18:02AM +1100, Riley Baird wrote: > > It think that statements on the homepage and on the "why Debian?" pages > > like "Debian comes with over 37500 different pieces of software." are a In https://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian "37500 different pieces of software" is

Re: Package count on Debian homepage

2015-02-22 Thread Riley Baird
> It think that statements on the homepage and on the "why Debian?" pages > like "Debian comes with over 37500 different pieces of software." are a > bit misleading since newcomers will most likely interpret this as the > number of software projects that are packaged within Debian. Counting > the b

Package count on Debian homepage

2015-02-22 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Hello, It think that statements on the homepage and on the "why Debian?" pages like "Debian comes with over 37500 different pieces of software." are a bit misleading since newcomers will most likely interpret this as the number of software projects that are packaged within Debian. Counting the bina