Package categories for opkg

[Marc Bantle]

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