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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