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

[Jonathan Roberts <jonrob fedoraproject org>]

> 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.

How does our terminology compare to other distributions? I know this  
is a metric that's used from time to time to make comparisons, and it  
seems to me that the best thing to do would be to use the same measure.

Jon