On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:01:38AM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 11:14:47PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > What happens is that gentoo ebuilds are written with less care to > > integration than fedora specfiles, that whats make them easier to > > write in my opinion. > > Oh puh-leeze. "Fedora has less packages than Gentoo because the > gentoo developers do a crappy job" is kindergarden-level Less integration doesn't mean "crappy job", nor is it necessarily inferior. It is just another choice. > justification. I use both gentoo and fedora on a regular basis and > they're both integrated, only differently. Of course it depends on what you mean by 'integration'. In gentoo ebuilds there are less change/additions to upstream than in fedora. > How many packages are > available is a function of: > > - infrastructure capability (a source distribution does not need a > compile cluster) > > - developers responsiveness (reviewing, QA, ...) > > - apparent ease of adding new packages for new potential contributors > > If you want more packages in Fedora (which is not a given), act on > these points and especially the last two. There are certainly also many other determinants to the number of packages available. But without looking at the reasons why there is a given number of packages, it is roughly: time to do a package * number of packager * time devoted per packager (the three terms are correlated, and the first one depends on the package so that's not a simple mean). -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
