Subject: Re: pkgsrc broken the 1000 barrier
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@mono.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/29/1999 13:08:04
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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