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NetBSD Packages Collection Up To 3525 Packages 21

Posted by timothy 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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  • floyd@deblin:~$ apt-cache dumpavail | grep 'Package:' | wc
    12312 24628 262265

    Debian unstable has over 12000 available.
    • Yeah but NetBSD is dying. And it STILL has 3525 packages! (joking)
    • Fetched 44.5kB in 3s (11.5kB/s)
      Reading Package Lists... Done
      Building Dependency Tree... Done
      Merging Available information
      Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available.
      Information about 13182 package(s) was updated.

      dammit! i WIN!!!
      maybe experimental is the cause

      • Re:Umm so? (Score:3, Interesting)

        by rtaylor ( 70602 )
        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, t
    • 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 [asic-linux.com.mx]
    • Considering that Debian has the highest package-to-application ratio of any system I know, let me respond by saying "so what?"

      Where NetBSD has the "fubar" package, Debian as "fubar", "fubar-docs", "fubar-devel", "fubar-optional" and "fubar-gtk".

      True, Debian has more applications in its package collection than NetBSD does, but don't even begin to claim that the raw number of packages in Debian means anything relevant to the world outside of Debian. Because it doesn't.
  • Hmmm, if I was really interested in the right NetBSD announcements I'd subscribe to the appropriate list. I don't think this is very, nerdy, and it surely isn't anything that matters.

    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

    • 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?

      • Shocking (Score:3, Funny)

        by 0x0d0a ( 568518 )
        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. :-)
    • You would have a point if this story had been posted to the main page.

      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.

      • This is either the second or third time it's been posted, as a monthly statistic. It's just odd. I find a lot of the BSD stories interesting. When OpenBSD posts a new 3.X version that had the GCC patches for helping to detect and stop stack overflow attacks, or when the big packet filter fiasco happened, those are interesting stories that involved something there was to discuss. When NetBSD finally gets ported to the handheld abacus that Sir Issac Newton used (I made that up). When NetBSD has a new st
        • 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.

  • The All NetBSD Packages [netbsd.org] document (long) states 3706 packages ... numbers, numbers, everywhere!

    • The All NetBSD Packages document (long) states 3706 packages ... numbers, numbers, everywhere!
      The figure used in the article is what is in the -current pkgsrc tree (which works with 1.6 -release and -stable, it simply doesn't have a seperate development tree). The URL you included is from the 1.6 -release branch back in September 14, 2002. It's grown yet more since then. Check the latest version of that file in CVS.
      • P.S., there is a special release-1-6-1 pkgsrc, due to the important changes in pkgsrc's infrastructure from NetBSD 1.6 they wanted to have a new tag, that is the exception, not the rule however. (And isn't currently the file the parent of this article's parent claims.)

  • Most portable package system ever (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    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.

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