On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/15/2009 04:43 PM, davide wrote: > >> >> I just wonder why repositories offers "so few" with respect "the other distro". >> I mean, last time I checked there was a 10k+ packages difference. >> I suppose a big part is very specific software not so popular, but >> still the difference is impressive. >> >> Is there a plan to "populate" repos > > Packages in Fedora are maintained in a voluntary basis. Every new > package has to go through a review process for sanity checks. If you are > interested, you can join by either packaging up the software you are > missing out or reviewing dozens and dozens of packages which are waiting > on that. have you a pointer to a wiki explaining how I can help? > > Note however that a direct comparison of number of packages is tricky > because packages are split up differently between distributions. I know, I was looking for some "raw" data, like source packages to try to extrapolate more accurate data. but a gap of more than 10k binary packages gives the idea. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
