Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> How many packages do you use?
>
> If one defines "using a package" as `require'-ing it in
> employed Elisp configuration and extension source, then one
> can use this command to find out
>
>   $ grep -h -o '(require .*)' **/*.el | sort -u | wc -l
>
> I use 159!

  ~$ qlist -I app-emacs/ | wc -l
  63

... and a few more through USE=emacs.

> Isn't it amazing that one almost never has any collisions
> doing it? Actually, I can't think of a single time that
> happened. But maybe it happened once or twice as I don't
> remember everything that happens.

Depending on what you mean by collisions, I might or might not have had
some.

> Maybe this shows that built-in and/or enforced modularity is
> over-rated?

I'm not sure I can agree even if that were true - I don't see how one
implies the other.

Have a lovely night!
--
Arsen Arsenović