> As of writing the Debian stable release has 96.729 packages in stable and 149.976 packages in unstable. That is a massive amount of software packages.

Does anyone know how this compares to other distros? In particular NixOS/nixpkgs is of interest.

Edit: it seems to be the largest software repo according to this (2020) [1].

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs [1] https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgs-has-been-the-largest-r...