> The last package count I made of unstable was over 70,000 distinct software packages. I think stable is well below that, though probably north of 40k.
For others, like me, interested in this you can grab a txt/JSON package list for mangling locally[1].
With the data I have grabbed it is 65k vs 57k.
> Though it wouldn't surprise me if a maximal install of software alone would be well over 100 GB.
A rough estimate[2] of just ``main`` on Buster:
$ awk -F: '/^Installed-Size/ {print $2}' /var/lib/apt/lists/*buster_main* | numsum
272960149
2. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.ht...