On Tuesday 2012-06-19 22:42, Nelson Marques wrote:
I don't have numbers, but I think Debian has the most packages in a release, followed by Fedora, followed by openSUSE. The number of packages matters for estimating effort and hardware resources required.
Number of packages is irrelevant because Debian and Ubuntu do a lot of retarded splitting; For example, I can split a package in 4 sub-packages, and eventually Debian would split it in 6/7 packages for the same software...
Retarded is when you don't split. See for example the rationale on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Shared_library_packaging_policy . Since Fedora does not do naming like that and instead bundles related libs into one "foo-libs" package, they traditionally have a low bincount. But bincount is the wrong thing to count anyway. You ought to look at the src package count. Provided everybody does sensible packaging (i.e. not stuffing all 5000 upstream projects into a single SRPM), the srccount is only a rough indicator for "richness", not "work involved". Consider SUSE's xorg-x11.srpm which has been split into 97 new (source) packages. You think that means more work? I tell you it was more work before; trying to match up patches with tarballs when it was a single srcpkg made more work, I would argue. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org