Re: counting packages (was Re: Fedora Package Status of Aug 12, 2008)

["Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 12:44 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 01:35 +0200, Christian Iseli wrote:
> 
> > Owners stats:
> >  - 6517 packages
> >  - 10799 binary rpms in devel
> 
> Darn, I was afraid of that.  We are all perfectly aware that one package
> (tarball + spec file) can yield more than one binary rpm.
> 
> So what are we counting when we count in public?  Does it matter that we
> use the term "package" in two senses?
> 
> We've been counting binary rpms as the "number of packages that Fedora
> has."
> 
> Do we need different terminology here?

And I think some of the binaries may be repeated for certain arches,
right?  But to me, saying "10,000" isn't disingenuous.  It's simple and
effective and essentially truthful.  And it's what users can get, which
is the central issue.

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