Repology Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments

  Nixpkgs is (and has been for many years) the largest and most up to date package set by a very large margin. source: https://repology.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information

  * Repology, to be notified when packages I maintain are out-of-date: https://repology.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• What is the Fedora experience like?

  For comparing package versions across distros, I like https://repology.org/. Fedora's official online package search is https://packages.fedoraproject.org/. Source: 6 months ago

• NixOS RFC 136 accepted: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally

  Fwiw nixpkgs has significantly more packages than arch (including the aur), and those packages are also significantly more up to date. No other repo comes close to nixpkgs in this regard. This has been the case for quite some years now. https://repology.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Package repo question, availability of packages

  I think available package number is a bit of an exaggeration. Looking at the statistics, the most packages are on nixOS. But there are other topics such as number of maintainers, update and stability. So middle ground is debian testing and arch. I suggest repology.org to look stats. Source: 12 months ago

• Couple of noob questions

  I believe it likely was a comparision in number of packages, currently nixpkgs outnumber AUR (although it also contains packages that are part of other languages): https://repology.org/. Source: 12 months ago

• Linux Software Map

  I guess the modern equivalent of that would be https://repology.org/ Although the focus is on the version aspect, so descriptions are a bit hidden and I'm not sure they're searchable. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• ubuntu-debullshit! Script to get vanilla gnome, remove snaps, flathub and more on Ubuntu

  I know that "number of packages" isn't a perfect metric, but going by that Nixpkgs is the largest (see https://repology.org/). Source: 12 months ago

• Is it possible to install older versions of XFCE (such as 4.14)

  To find a distro still supporting that version you can use https://repology.org/ or https://pkgs.org. Source: almost 1 year ago

• I hope nobody has done that

  FreeBSD also has its own ports system which has 29678 (source: repology.org) packaged project. Source: about 1 year ago