On 04/25/2011 07:42 PM, Piscium wrote: > > Yours is a good point, and also the way I see things. So yes, > everything I use on a regular basis is available in the repos I have > currently enabled, plus a package or two in Atrpms. And there are also > two applications that I build from source, but they are very specific > and I think no distro has them yet (they are very simple to build > anyway, so not worthwhile to package). What would those two be? If they are simple to build, no reason not to package them. > But then there is software I want to try out, and here the picture is > different. So some weeks ago when I was looking at window managers I > did log to Debian as they have a greater choice, but the one I > eventually chose is both in Fedora and Debian. Yep. Precisely the point. It's possible if you are picking up niche packages, one distro might have a advantage (often temporary because once you have it packaged, the metadata can be transferred fairly easily between RPM and Deb or whatever) but what gets used by users, I would be surprised if it wasn't already available in majority of cases and package count is immaterial. Rahul -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
