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[Jeff Hubbs]

Gentoo-portage.com currently lists 13769 packages and 26619 ebuilds; 
typically a given package will contain multiple ebuilds, one for each 
version currently in Portage.  Some packages are managed more 
aggressively than others as far as producing ebuilds from upstream goes.

On 2/18/10 6:54 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
> Brian Pitts wrote:
>    
>> On 02/17/2010 09:22 AM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>>      
>>> Can someone run me through what the current situation is w.r.t. Red Hat
>>> and Red-Hat-derived distributions and package repositories?  I am seeing
>>> situations where people seem to go "RPM fishing" from the Internet's
>>> hinterlands and others seem to have to add this or that repository to a
>>> list in order to obtain such-and-such a package via yum.
>>>        
>> RHEL provides (and hence supports) a relatively small number of packages.
>>
>> # lsb_release -d&&  yum list all | wc -l
>> Description:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)
>> 6476
>>      
> With the addition of epel repository to RHEL I get: 9462
>
>    
>> Fedora provides a lot more.
>>
>> $ lsb_release -d&&  yum list all | wc -l
>> Description:	Fedora release 12 (Constantine)
>> 27151
>>
>> There are various efforts to provide additional packages for RHEL.
>> There's a good overview on the CentOS wiki. [0]
>>
>> Since Fedora has a stringent free software licensing policy (the only
>> non-free software allowed is firmware), their 27,000 packages exclude
>> some software that some people find useful. The main effort to provide
>> that software for Fedora is RPM Fusion. [1]
>>
>> [0] http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
>> [1] http://rpmfusion.org/
>>
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