What does the packages available information mean?

[mastablasta]

There is an information in software manager that says hwo many packages are available at certain category.

For example i went with games and it said 1143 packages available.
Once i clicked on games i got the breakdown into following packages:
42 Board games
6 FPS
6RTS
12 turn based strategy
21 Emulators
11 simulators/racing

now that doesn't seem like a total of 1143 packages.

Additionally - why would someone be interested in how many packages there are available? Isn't it more of an interest how many programmes are available? Packages can be dependencies, right? Or do i got it wrong and packages does mean programmes and the manager is broken?

[mastablasta]

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[proxima_centauri]

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It appears after an appropriate amount of time (48 hours I think)

As for your question, I do not know.

[squeezy]

Additionally - why would someone be interested in how many packages there are available? Isn't it more of an interest how many programmes are available? Packages can be dependencies, right?

Correct.

I've always had a small issue with this myself. Sure, they advertise "over 30,000 packages available" but at least half of those re support libraries. I don't install libraries myself (99.9% of the time), they're brought in as dependencies to run the programs I choose. IMHO libraries should be tracked under their own category and not advertised as if they were programs you can install to run.

[Apentier]

I've always had a small issue with this myself. Sure, they advertise "over 30,000 packages available" but at least half of those re support libraries. I don't install libraries myself (99.9% of the time), they're brought in as dependencies to run the programs I choose. IMHO libraries should be tracked under their own category and not advertised as if they were programs you can install to run.

Thank you for the explanation.