[xnyanta]

> OK: 9494 distinct packages available

I opened that apkindex file and it had duplicate entries for a ton of packages with different versions, taking a look at https://github.com/wolfi-dev/os I only see about 840 yaml files which I assume define the packages. I don't think claiming to have 10k packages when only 10% of them are actually different pieces of software is a good claim to make. Nixpkgs would have millions of packages if we added up every single unique package from every revision.

[dlor]

The real number is probably somewhere in the middle - one yaml file can define many packages - see the gcc or clang or argocd ones for examples of that.

glibc explodes into a few dozen, for example.

[amouat]

I think it's more subpackages such as -dev, -lib and -doc variants. These are defined as part of the parent package but count as distinct packages.

[xnyanta]

Even so, I did a quick search on repology and Nix derivations with multiple outputs (the nix lingo analogous to the subpackages you mentioned) are counted as a single package. For example, bash has 5 outputs but only counts for 1 package in the 85k figure, so I think comparing 900 packages to 85k is a valid comparison.

Anyway, this is all besides the point I was trying to make which is that I don't see why I should use _yet another_ software distribution that has 1% of the amount of packages found in a mature distribution that already has frequent automatic updates and bleeding-edge software revisions.

[amouat]

We needed Wolfi to be able to create minimal (distroless if you like) container images based on glibc with 0 vulnerabilities. Turns out a lot of other people are interested in Wolfi for various reasons, and we're more than happy to work with them.

You definitely don't need to use Wolfi! But I would say, if you run containers you might want to check out Chainguard Images: https://github.com/chainguard-images/images