For some reason I thought that I had published a presentation with an EPEL package count that was wildly inaccurate, like 3000 for el4 and 7000 for el5. I could be recalling incorrectly, maybe I’ve always gotten that one right. If you have seen something from me that reports numbers that are high like that, please let me know so I can fix it.
Looking at the i386 package download list I see “nearly 3000” in el5 (2657 exactly), and “nearly 1500” in el4 (1447, that is.)
Package count is typically done on source rpms with old package releases excluded. Repoview lists 886 (EL4) and 1680 (EL5) source rpms, but that includes old package releases.
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/SRPMS/repoview/
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/SRPMS/repoview/
Interesting. I’ve been curious if some folks were using source rpms and some the final build packages, when doing package count.
For the world of end-users and other package installers, my guess is the interest is in the specific built packages. That’s what they are scrolling through, that is what they are installing, that is what they are counting.
In the end it doesn’t matter that much, except for potential confusion. Oh, yeah, and marketing value. 🙂
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