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Old 11-26-2023, 08:29 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by boughtonp View Post
Where is your source for those numbers? (It would appear to be either out of date or not counting everything.)

Based on actual lists of packages...

Debian 12 Stable (Bookworm) has 120,052 packages (across main/contrib/non-free/non-free-firmware).
Debian Testing (Trixie) has 125,946 packages.
Debian Unstable (Sid) has 201,606 packages.

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy) has 111,661 packages (across main/restricted/universe/multiverse)

Arch reports 14,525 packages in its repos, with 86,306 more in AUR (so 100,831 total).
Fedora says 73,511 packages.

OpenSUSE doesn't seem to have obvious/convenient package numbers, but has 42,000 claimed at //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions?useskin=vector#Package_management_and_installation


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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