Out of curiosity, how are you obtaining those numbers, and
	would it make sense to have some form of table indicating
	growth (simialr to FreeBSD :)

	Also, maybe the category README.html files could ontain
	the number of packages in each category? :)
	


		David/absolute

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, David Brownlee wrote:
> >         Congratulations to everyone working on pkgsrc!
> > 
> >         I would think this deserves some kind of wider distribution -
> >         maybe netbsd-announce and daemonnews? :)
> 
> I'm too tired for words, therefore just some numbers:
> 
> FreeBSD: 2711 ports 	since 1994/08/21
> NetBSD:  1060 pkgs	since 1997/08/20
> OpenBSD:  567 ports	since 1996/06/03 (*)
> 
> (*) Did OpenBSD really have ports before NetBSD? (This is from
>     http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/share/mk/bsd.port.mk?rev=1.1)
> 
> Taking average port growth/year, I'm impressed by the fact we're keeping
> up with FreeBSD. :)
> 
> 
>  - Hubert
> 
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