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Re:Bingo – The missing package manager for Go binaries (Home... by Maursault on Sunday December 26, 2021 @10:54AM (#29693387)
> versus about 11000 ports in MacPorts (not counting subports).

MacPorts has 28,082 active ports.[1] I'm not sure if that includes subports.

[1] https://ports.macports.org/search/

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Re:Bingo – The missing package manager for Go binaries (Home... by pxc on Sunday December 26, 2021 @12:39PM (#29694422)
They were probably going by the Repology stats, which use a cross-distro notion of 'projects' rather than individual packages, which is why their figure was given as excluding subports

https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/nonunique

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