Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

On 04/25/2011 05:32 PM, Piscium wrote:
Debian has an advantage on number of packages available. Debian claims
on its website to have 30 K packages. And this is on Fedora:

[xx@d3000 ~]$ yum repolist
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto
Adding en_IE to language list
repo id repo name status
adobe-linux-i386 Adobe Systems Incorporated 18
fedora Fedora 14 - i386 17,880+3
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Free 364
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Free - Updates 504
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Nonfree 176
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Nonfree - Updates 267
updates Fedora 14 - i386 - Updates 6,346
repolist: 25,555

The total of 25 K is misleading as some packages are counted twice, so
the Fedora total is probably around 20-22 K. Also there are other
repos that I have not enabled, such as Atrpms.

This isn't really a good comparison as the same command in my Fedora 15
installation, gives me

repolist: 29,883

Raw count is a fairly meaningless measure. What would be interesting
is to talk about what software if any that you use on a regular basis is
missing from the Fedora (+ popular third party repos)

Rahul

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