linux.gentoo.user

On Sunday 16 March 2008, 13:22, Emil Beinroth wrote:

> > 27602
>
> That is not really fair, we do not have foo-qt3, foo-qt4,
> foo-mysql, foo-psql .. We have "foo" with useflags.
>
> So either remove the -dev, -qt3, -qt4, virtual packages, [..] from
> that list, or calculate the number of use-flag permutations possible
> for our packages.

You are damn right. I overlooked the fact that a single gentoo ebuild,
depending on USE flags, can provide and install the equivalent of many
debian packages.
So, calculating a number using automated tools becomes quite difficult,
since each package needs to be examined and compared with the
corresponding offering in the other distro.
A (very) rough estimate could be probably done by unifying each foo-*
Debian packages into a single entry, which results in something like

$ grep '^