Number of Fedora Programs ?

[Dan]

William Case wrote:
> Hi; 
> Does anybody on this list know off hand approximately how many programs
> (excluding the Kernel) are in the FC5 download? In the Fedora extras
> repository?
>
> I am just doing a quick write-up of the FC5 installation process and
> trying to avoid writing a script that does a direct count of the number
> of headers. I only need to approximate.
>
> Regards Bill 
>
>   
For i386, yum reports 2207 core packages, 392 updates packages (just 
updated core packages) and 2573 extras packages. You can subtract the 
kernel packages from there.
-Dan