Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:32:02 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@beenic.net> Cc: jamesh@lanl.gov, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Linux distro Message-ID: <47BDDFC2.20708@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <200802211610.29520.wundram@beenic.net> References: <20080219114803.V2675@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080221065846.GB98271@demeter.hydra> <1203605931.2479.49.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov> <200802211610.29520.wundram@beenic.net>
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Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008 15:58:51 schrieb James Harrison: > >>>> 8. Most extensive collection of third party software (over 18000 ) only >>>> second to Debian. >>>> >>> Looking back at it, I'm surprised I didn't mention that. >>> >> Gentoo has over 24 thousand ebuilds, where an ebuild is their equivalent >> of a port: >> > > Err, don't confuse ebuilds with packages. A package is a piece of software > (which is the equivalent of a port), whereas an ebuild is an install script > for a specific version of a package. Normally, there's more than one version > of a package (more than one ebuild) available for a package, which makes the > ebuild count higher than the FreeBSD ports count, but the package count lower > (somewhere above 12000). > > This doesn't count slotted ebuilds: for example, Gentoo has just one gtk > package, which contains several ebuilds for slot 12 which is gtk-1.2.x and > several ebuilds for slot 20, which is gtk-2.x (different slots are treated as > different packages by the system internally), whereas FreeBSD has a gtk12 and > a gtk20 port, which installs the respective versions. > > So, basically whatever numbers you take, they can't be compared directly > anyway, but I guess that the number of ports is still higher than the Gentoo > amortized package count would be. > And also be aware that many utilities included in the FreeBSD base system are ebuilds in the Gentoo world. tcpdump and top are just two examples I can think of off the top of my head. Cheers, Drew
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