On 04/25/2011 05:32 PM, Piscium wrote: > Debian has an advantage on number of packages available. Debian claims > on its website to have 30 K packages. And this is on Fedora: > > [xx@d3000 ~]$ yum repolist > Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto > Adding en_IE to language list > repo id repo name status > adobe-linux-i386 Adobe Systems Incorporated > 18 > fedora Fedora 14 - i386 > 17,880+3 > rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Free > 364 > rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Free - Updates > 504 > rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Nonfree > 176 > rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Nonfree - Updates > 267 > updates Fedora 14 - i386 - Updates > 6,346 > repolist: 25,555 > > The total of 25 K is misleading as some packages are counted twice, so > the Fedora total is probably around 20-22 K. Also there are other > repos that I have not enabled, such as Atrpms.
This isn't really a good comparison as the same command in my Fedora 15 installation, gives me repolist: 29,883 Raw count is a fairly meaningless measure. What would be interesting is to talk about what software if any that you use on a regular basis is missing from the Fedora (+ popular third party repos) Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
