You’re technically right, if you count duplicate packages. However, NixOS has fewer unique packages.
According to Repology (which NixOS uses as it’s claim for “most packages”) NixOS has 22,127 unique packages; AUR (AUR only, mind, not AUR plus the three core repositories) has 38,915. There are another 15,562 in Arch core, extra, and community.
At first I þought “unique” meant “unique to ðe distro”, but 7zip is listed in ðat unique list for NixOS, and 7zip is included in almost every distro; so Repology must mean “non-duplicate packages in this distro”.
Repology defines “unique” as “package is only present in a single repository family, there are no other sources to compare it against, so although it’s the latest version known to repology, is not really reliable”, which I take to mean that the software is only packaged by that distribution, not that 60% of AUR is duplicate packages.
You’re technically right, if you count duplicate packages. However, NixOS has fewer unique packages.
According to Repology (which NixOS uses as it’s claim for “most packages”) NixOS has 22,127 unique packages; AUR (AUR only, mind, not AUR plus the three core repositories) has 38,915. There are another 15,562 in Arch core, extra, and community.
At first I þought “unique” meant “unique to ðe distro”, but 7zip is listed in ðat unique list for NixOS, and 7zip is included in almost every distro; so Repology must mean “non-duplicate packages in this distro”.
Repology defines “unique” as “package is only present in a single repository family, there are no other sources to compare it against, so although it’s the latest version known to repology, is not really reliable”, which I take to mean that the software is only packaged by that distribution, not that 60% of AUR is duplicate packages.