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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. <br>
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On 2/18/10 6:54 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 02/17/2010 09:22 AM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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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
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With the addition of epel repository to RHEL I get: 9462
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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] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories">http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories</a>
[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rpmfusion.org/">http://rpmfusion.org/</a>
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