Hubert Feyrer wrote
> 
> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	Out of curiosity, how are you obtaining those numbers, and
> > 	would it make sense to have some form of table indicating
> > 	growth (simialr to FreeBSD :)
> 
> Um, for FreeBSD and OpenBSD, I've fetched their ports.tar.gz, extracted it
> and did a "cd .../ports ; ls */*/Makefile | wc -l". Maybe we could make
> something for NetBSD, too... logging to some file, and then making that
> into an image. Hum...
> 
> 
> > 	Also, maybe the category README.html files could ontain
> > 	the number of packages in each category? :)
> 
> Er, um... go for it. :-)
> (README-all is created very differently than the category/README.html
> files ;-)

Hmmm, try this

dingo# locate Makefile | grep pkgsrc | wc -l
    1127 

Takes no longer than one second... :-)

Of course, this assumes that none of the packages have been extracted,
but hey, this isn't the case on ftp.netbsd.org.

cheerio Berndt
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