Strange facts against Fedora bloat

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:37:06AM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> In an article by Mick Bauer in the June 2006 Linux Journal the following
> packages statistcs were quoted:
> Debian 15,000

helium:~# grep Package: /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages | wc -l
16528


> Suse !0.0  4,000
> RHEL ES4  1,700 (includes Extras)
> 
> Well feeling that FC5 was bloated since growing to 5 CD-s I decided to
> count the RPMS. The result was 2190.
> 
> Mick Bauer says that RedHat wants to be slim and trim. I am awed by the
> comparison of numbers of packages. I know there are Extras but still I
> never knew we were slim and trim before.

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