[advocacy-discuss] Package repository: 25,000 packages???

[Brandorr]

On 10/21/07, Ken Mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> During the Summit, a slide was presented showing the open source issues between Solaris, Solaris w/CCD, and Ubuntu.
>
> Think of it this way:
>
> 1. Solaris 10u4 + Blastwave: 1800+ open source packages
> 2. Solaris 10u4 + Blastwave + SFW: 2100+ open source packages
> 3. Solaris 10u4 + Blastwave + SFW + pkgsrc: 2800+ open source packages
> 4. Ubuntu 7.10: 24,000+ open source packages
>
> Well, you see this might be a problem if you want to give up that favorite "alternative UNIX" distro for an OpenSolaris distro.
>
> There is Nexenta. Also, the many packages of Debian are a bit decieving. A few packages are broken out to smaller packages based on docs, libs, or other parts.
> Yet, following the same Debian model should give 24,000+ packages as well depending if you cut out the Linux-specific packages (which may scale things back to 15K-20K packages).
>
> The journey continues....
>

Ken,

You are about right there. At last count the Nexenta repositories had
"over 15,000 packages". One thing I really like about Nexenta is that
they were able to leverage much of the packaging work done by the
Ubuntu/Debian community, and didn't have to build up their
repositories completely from scratch. (Compared to Blastwave, and
OpenSolaris.org numbers, it's pretty amazing, what they were able to
do with such a small team.)

Cheers,
Brian

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