FreeBSD ports are more up to date

If I'm not mistaken, the table ranks systems based on the ratio of up-to-date to outdated packages, measured against the total number of packages in the repository. Arch is lower on the list because despite being a rolling-release distribution, the number of officially supported packages is extremely small relative to other Linux distributions. FreeBSD is at the top because its repo is a rolling-release platform and has an enormous number of packages. It's both larger than the official Arch repo, and better-maintained that the AUR (not that that last point counts for much. ;) )
 
Statistics are meaningless without a clear explanation on what was measured, and how.

What defines "Outdated" for example? What defines "Unique"?

I looked at the main site where I came across (I quote):

Repology shows you in which repositories a given project is packaged, which version is the latest and which needs updating, who maintains the package, and other related information.
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Which needs updating? According to who?

See: my gripe with this is simple: a package like NetHack has 'recently' been updated, but before that it didn't get any updates for over 3+ years (I don't know the exact time period from mind). Unless this site clearly tells us that "needs updating" means "there's a new version out but not available in the repository" I'm not going to assume anything here. For all I know they could even have been including NetHack as "needs updating".

Oh... would you look at this... (note: all valid at time of writing):

Lets take a look at the repology NetHack stats. Oh dear: AUR is heavily outdated according to them. They use version
3.6.0.r728.gf715224 while a newer one is out. Yet when I search the AUR repository index for NetHack it clearly shows me the availability of 3.6.0.r728.gf715224-1.

Repology's list of outdated packages is outdated :rolleyes:

Very trustworthy indeed :D

(edit):

Seems this is a structural problem... According to Repology Fedora 24 and 25 still use the highly outdated NetHack version 3.4.3. When I check Fedora's package index on NetHack however it shows me something different once again: versions 24, 25 and 26 all use a 3.6.0 version. Most definitely not 3.4.3.

Can it get worse? But of course it can. If I dig deeper for the "outdated" Fedora 24 release of NetHack I noticed that it had been upgraded to NetHack 3.6.0 almost a month ago (time of writing).

SO basically... This "awesomely trustworthy" Repology site is outdated by nearly 1 month when it comes to Fedora's repository entry of NetHack.

And this was done without even taking any effort. I can only shudder at what more nonsense I'll find if I dig deeper.

My conclusion: this website is hardly credible nor trustworthy. Best to ignore this one.
 
ShelLuser said:
Lets take a look at the repology NetHack stats. Oh dear: AUR is heavily outdated according to them. They use version
3.6.0.r728.gf715224 while a newer one is out. Yet when I search the AUR repository index for NetHack it clearly shows me the availability of 3.6.0.r728.gf715224-1.

Repology's list of outdated packages is outdated :rolleyes:
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Repology drops revision suffixes, "-1" in this case, as they are useless to it. If you've looked at packages page, you'll see the unmodified version. So you are wrong, it is not outdated.

ShelLuser said:
Seems this is a structural problem... According to Repology Fedora 24 and 25 still use the highly outdated NetHack version 3.4.3. When I check Fedora's package index on NetHack however it shows me something different once again: versions 24, 25 and 26 all use a 3.6.0 version. Most definitely not 3.4.3.
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Repology just didn't know of Fedora updates repositories. It does now. And it doesn't change the whole picture at all.

ShelLuser said:
My conclusion: this website is hardly credible nor trustworthy. Best to ignore this one.
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You cannot make any conclusions based on examining a single sample out of 126700.
 
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