Small is not quite exact. MacPorts has 8,000+ ports. Homebrew has 1600+ formulae but this is an awful metric due to the distributed nature of its development (2

Small is not quite exact. MacPorts has 8,000+ ports. Homebrew has 1600+ formulae but this is an awful metric due to the distributed nature of its development (2000+ forks, with some very specialized) and it is barely two years old! Take the package count for Debian as a reference: http://ftp-master.debian.org/users/joerg/pkg-nums http://ftp-master.debian.org/users/joerg/pkg-nums