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NetBSD Packages Collection Up To 3525 Packages

Posted by timothy on from the it's-not-likely-to-go-down dept.

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)."

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  1. Re:Umm so? by rtaylor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Last time I looked, Debian packages were by far a vast number of duplicates.

    For example, PHP was compiled in several different versions in several different methods (with XML, without XML, with ..., etc.).

    FreeBSD has a php package for CGI based PHP4, Mod based PHP4, and Mod based PHP3. But all of the compile options (components of PHP itself) are flags to be set during compile time and are one package.

    Anyway, by bundling this way, a single BSD package may be equivelent to 15 or 20 Debian packages.

    So, take the NetBSD repository and double it.

    OpenBSD is even wonkier. They'll have a single port that supports several versions of a piece of software (a -devel line and -stable line) as well as all of the compile time options. So it may have 40 or more different ways of being compiled.

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    Rod Taylor