Package categories for opkg
Pander
pander at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Dec 23 15:35:24 CET 2008
Hi all,
At the moment these are the opkg categories (as seen on http://opkg.org):
Audio
Games
GPS
Graphics
Internet
Office
PIM
Settings
System
Utility
Video
Would it be more appropriate to use the relevant Debian/Ubuntu dpkg
categories? Because most of the packages also exist and/or originate from
.deb packages. They use the following (as seen on
http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/intrepid/):
Administration Utilities
Base Utilities
Communication Programs
debian-installer udeb packages
Development
Documentation
Editors
Electronics
Embedded software
Games
GNOME
Graphics
Ham Radio
Interpreters
KDE
Library development
Libraries
Mail
Mathematics
Miscellaneous
Network
Newsgroups
Old Libraries
Other OS's and file systems
Perl
Python
Science
Shells
Sound
TeX
Text Processing
Translations
Utilities
Virtual packages
Web Software
X Window System software
I'd like to suggest the following consolidation from opkg package
categories to dpkg categories:
Administration Utilities <- opkg Settings
Base Utilities <- opkg System
Editors <- opkg Office
Games <- opkg Games
Graphics <- opkg Graphics and some GPS
Miscellaneous <- opkg GPS
Sound <- opkg Audio
Text Processing <- opkg Office
Utilities <- opkg Utility and some GPS
While looking into this, perhaps a new category called GPS needs to be
added to the Debian/Ubuntu world.
In short wat was the reason for these alternative categories and is this
consolidation of categories welcomed?
Regards,
Pander
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