You mean sorting packages like this ?
Applications/Amusements/Games
Applications/Amusements/Graphics
Applications/Archiving
Applications/CPAN
Applications/Communications
Applications/Configuration
Applications/Databases
Applications/Editors
Applications/Emulators
Applications/Engineering
Applications/File
Applications/Finance
Applications/Internet
Applications/Multimedia
Applications/Multimedia/Sound
Applications/Networking
Applications/Networking/Utilities
Applications/Productivity
Applications/Publishing
Applications/Publishing/TeX
Applications/System
Applications/Text
Applications/Utilities
Applications/Utilities/Archiving
Applications/Utilities/System
Applications/Utilities/Text
Applications/X11/Amusements
Applications/X11/Amusements/Games
Applications/X11/Amusements/Games/Strategy
Applications/X11/Amusements/Games/Video
Applications/X11/Applications
Applications/X11/Applications/Graphics
Applications/X11/Applications/GNOME
Applications/X11/Applications/Internet
Applications/X11/Applications/KDE
Applications/X11/Applications/Networking
Applications/X11/Base/GNOME
Applications/X11/Base/KDE
Applications/X11/Fonts
Applications/X11/Multimedia
Applications/X11/Multimedia/GNOME
Applications/X11/Multimedia/KDE
Applications/X11/Network/GNOME
Applications/X11/Network/KDE
Applications/X11/Utilities
Applications/X11/Utilities/GNOME
Applications/X11/Utilities/KDE
Applications/X11/System/GNOME
Applications/X11/System/KDE
Applications/X11/Window Managers
Development/Debuggers
Development/Languages
Development/Libraries
Development/Tools
Documentation
System Environment/Base
System Environment/Daemons
System Environment/Daemons/Networking
System Environment/Kernel
System Environment/Libraries
System Environment/Shells
User Interface/Desktops
User Interface/X
User Interface/X Hardware Support
Really, sorting applications is not really easy. So a small "search"
tool could be useful.
Grégoire
PS : the above is an extract from an old 1999 thread about RedHat's
classification for the RPMs. And the above tree was in fact much more
"clean" than RedHat's one... ;)
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Will Smith wrote:
> Le Dimanche 5 Août 2001 02:55, vous avez écrit :
(...)
>>This would do two things:
>> make the conversion to linux easier because you see
>>the software equivalents you are looking for
>> familiarize the newbie to the name and functions of
>>some of the new software, which will help ease the
>>intimidation factor.
>>
>
> There are other way as a classification organisation : Network -> Mail Client
>
> I prefer a search option in order to find very quickly some of the package I
> need, even if, I know, I've got the ability to install them after.
>
>
