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NetBSD Packages Collection Up To 3525 Packages
Dan writes "NetBSD's Alistair Crooks says that by his calculations, at the end of February 2003, there were 3525 packages in the NetBSD Packages Collection, up from 3461 the previous month, a rise of 64. The Package of the Month award goes to pkgdepgraph (yet again), nominated by Andrew Brown (yet again)."
floyd@deblin:~$ apt-cache dumpavail | grep 'Package:' | wc
12312 24628 262265
Debian unstable has over 12000 available.
"I drank what?" -Socrates
is that many really necessary? I mean REALLY?
While I don't mind the occasional, hey look at this new cool software package, this seems completely out of place on Slashdot. Monthly postings of the number of packages just seems incredibly bizarre. It's not like you are posting a new revision, a new feature, a new major release, major changes. In short, this isn't news worthy, probably not even to people who use NetBSD on a daily basis. If there we're some compelling packages it would be better. It's not like they just finished porting KDE or Gnome, or MS Office to it. That would qualify as slashdot worthy.
I thought the first time it was done last month, it was weird but okay for slashdot, however, I can't see the use in posting it every month. What is there to discuss? It is merely a statistic, there isn't anything compelling in the story to discuss, hence my meta-discussion of if it is worthy of discussion.
Kirby
64 packages in one month is more than 2 packages being added a day. And besides, among the notable additions were "xmms-funtimedancer." How did NetBSD users survive without a funtime dancer?
didn't we just have a NetBSD package article? Is this news? We don't know how many FreeBSD and OpenBSD packages there are, how many Fink packages or Gentoo packages there are? I don't want to like like a troll but it doesn't seem nessisary
But it wasn't.
It was posted to the BSD section, where it's perfectly appropriate. I haven't noticed monthly /. BSD-section postings of the number of packages in NetBSD, and in any case I was moderately interested by this post.
So either you took time out to visit the BSD section, or you've set the /. option to collapse sections -- either way, if you're not interested, just ignore it.
The All NetBSD Packages document (long) states 3706 packages ... numbers, numbers, everywhere!
One example story was here: Stats for Feb
Posted by timothy, submitted by Dan, with a link to bsdforums.
Here is another story: Stats for January
Look at that posted by timothy, submitted by Dan with a link to bsdforums.
Like I said, I didn't mind the first or second time it was posted, but it seems silly to post them on a monthly basis. I suppose I can start submitting the number of LOC a base Linux kernel has.
There are lots of interesting stories about BSD, this isn't one of them.
I'd rather see them post interesting things about BSD, I'm sure they are out there, this isn't one of them. Statistical updates about NetBSD that consist of a single number seem dull to me. If they had a list of interesting packages, rather then a list of 64 packages of which there are 3 or 4 sets of 6 inter-related packages, so the number isn't particularly meaningful anyways...
Kirby
If it exists for Linux, it's probable that it's packaged in RPM format.
Of course, for both deb and rpm, there's the excellent checkinstall
May we never see th
And besides, among the notable additions were "xmms-funtimedancer." How did NetBSD users survive without a funtime dancer?
:-)
They haven't been. NetBSD has been dying for lack of a funtime dancer.
May we never see th
When NetBSD finally gets ported to the handheld abacus that Sir Issac Newton used (I made that up).
Forget Slashdot; the Associated Press would pick that one up in a heartbeat.
You're right, though. Even a story detailing the last package packaged each month for NetBSD would be more useful. Someone might discover a new software package.
May we never see th
I completely agree. I'm a BSD nerd myself, the BSd topic is always on my front page, but even i think this is a bit ridiculous. Sure, post when you get a cool, round milestone number like 3000 or 3500, but updating it every month is a waste of time.
All you guys seem to fail to catch one important fact: NetBSD pkgsrc does not support only NetBSD itself, but also many other operating systems, including FreeBSD, Darwin, Linux, Solaris, AIX, etc. This is another place where portability and clean design of NetBSD shines.