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Of course, package numbers is not the same as software numbers. For example, 0ad is one piece of software distributed across three packages, whilst coreutils is a single package but contains numerous utilities.
Not counting source packages, and multiple architectures. On my pi400 running Bookworm arm64 Synaptic shows 65k+ packages. Yes if you add in sources packages and all the architectures there are a ton more packages.
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