Package categories for opkg
Marc Bantle
openmoko at rcie.de
Tue Dec 23 22:31:36 CET 2008
Pander schrieb:
> 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.
>
>
I'd go for category "Geo" instead of GPS
being a autonomous subcategory of "Sience"
as is "Mathematics".
Cheers,
Marc
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