| app-accessibility |
The app-accessibility category contains packages which help with accessibility (for example, screen readers). |
| app-admin |
The app-admin category contains non-core applications which relate to system administration. |
| app-antivirus |
The app-antivirus category contains antivirus software. |
| app-arch |
The app-arch category contains tools for archiving, compressing and uncompressing files or groups of files. |
| app-backup |
The app-backup category contains tools for performing backups of data, including both full and incremental backups, as well as backups to other media (CD-R, Tape, etc.). |
| app-benchmarks |
The app-benchmarks category contains benchmarking software. |
| app-cdr |
The app-cdr category contains software for writing CDs and DVDs, and for working with .iso files. |
| app-crypt |
The app-crypt category contains cryptographic (encryption, decryption, steganography and signing) software. |
| app-dicts |
The app-dicts category contains dictionary and word-list packages. |
| app-doc |
The app-doc category contains various miscellaneous documentation collections. |
| app-editors |
The app-editors category contains text editors. |
| app-emacs |
The app-emacs category contains extension packages for the Emacs text editor. |
| app-emulation |
The app-emulation category contains emulation software. |
| app-forensics |
The app-forensics category contains software which helps detect and analyse security breaches. |
| app-i18n |
The app-i18n category contains internationalisation-related packages. |
| app-laptop |
The app-laptop category contains packages which are designed to work with certain kinds of laptop or notebook computer. |
| app-leechcraft |
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| app-misc |
The app-misc category contains various miscellaneous application packages which don't belong anywhere else. |
| app-mobilephone |
The app-mobilephone category contains software for working with mobile phones. |
| app-office |
The app-office category contains 'office' (word processing, spreadsheets, presentation) software packages. |
| app-officeext |
The app-officeext category contains extension packages for LibreOffice and OpenOffice. |
| app-pda |
The app-pda category contains software for working with personal digital assistants or hand-held computers. |
| app-portage |
The app-portage category contains software which works with portage or ebuilds. |
| app-shells |
The app-shells category contains shells and their extensions. |
| app-text |
The app-text category contains tools for working with human-language text files. |
| app-vim |
The app-vim category contains plugins, syntax file and spelling packages for the Vim text editor. |
| app-xemacs |
The app-xemacs category contains extensions for the XEmacs text editor. |
| dev-ada |
The dev-ada category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Ada programming language. |
| dev-cpp |
The dev-cpp category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the c++ programming language. |
| dev-db |
The dev-db category contains libraries and utilities for database related programming. |
| dev-dotnet |
The dev-dotnet category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the .NET programming environment. |
| dev-embedded |
The dev-embedded category contains libraries and utilities relevant to embedded programming. |
| dev-games |
The dev-games category contains libraries and utilities relevant to games programming. |
| dev-haskell |
The dev-haskell category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Haskell programming language. |
| dev-java |
The dev-java category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Java programming language. |
| dev-lang |
The dev-lang category contains various programming language implementations and related tools. |
| dev-libs |
The dev-libs category contains various miscellaneous programming libraries. |
| dev-lisp |
The dev-lisp category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Lisp programming language. |
| dev-lua |
The dev-lua category contains libraries, utilities or bindings written in or for the Lua programming language. |
| dev-ml |
The dev-ml category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the ML programming language. |
| dev-perl |
The dev-perl category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Perl programming language. |
| dev-php |
The dev-php category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the PHP programming language. |
| dev-python |
The dev-python category contains libraries, utilities or bindings written in or for the Python programming language. |
| dev-qt |
The dev-qt category contains packages for the Qt framework modules and directly related libraries and development applications from the upstream Qt Project. Do not add other packages to this category. |
| dev-ruby |
The dev-ruby category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Ruby programming language. |
| dev-scheme |
The dev-scheme category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Scheme programming language. |
| dev-tcltk |
The dev-tcltk category contains Tcl- and Tk-related libraries and tools. |
| dev-tex |
The dev-tex category contains libraries and tools useful when working with TeX and TeX-based environments such as LaTeX. |
| dev-texlive |
The dev-texlive category contains various TeXLive's packages. |
| dev-util |
The dev-util category contains various miscellaneous development utilities. |
| dev-vcs |
The dev-vcs category contains utilities focused on version control. |
| games-action |
The games-action category contains action games. |
| games-arcade |
The games-arcade category contains arcade games. |
| games-board |
The games-board category contains board games. |
| games-emulation |
The games-emulation category contains game platform emulators. |
| games-engines |
The games-engines category contains game engines. |
| games-fps |
The games-fps category contains first person shooter games. |
| games-kids |
The games-kids category contains games designed for children. |
| games-misc |
The games-misc category contains miscellaneous games which do not fit into other games- categories. |
| games-mud |
The games-mud category contains multi-user dungeon games. |
| games-puzzle |
The games-puzzle category contains puzzle games. |
| games-roguelike |
The games-roguelike category contains games which resemble Rogue's style. |
| games-rpg |
The games-rpg category contains role-playing games. |
| games-server |
The games-server category contains game servers. |
| games-simulation |
The games-simulation category contains simulation games. |
| games-sports |
The games-sports category contains sports games. |
| games-strategy |
The games-strategy category contains strategy games. |
| games-util |
The games-util category contains various game-related utilities. |
| gnome-base |
The gnome-base category contains core GNOME packages. |
| gnome-extra |
The gnome-extra category contains additional non-core GNOME packages. |
| gnustep-apps |
The gnustep-apps category contains GNUstep applications. |
| gnustep-base |
The gnustep-base category contains GNUstep base packages. |
| gnustep-libs |
The gnustep-libs category contains GNUstep libraries. |
| gpe-base |
The gpe-base category contains libraries, utilities for handheld and other input constrained and resource limited devices. |
| gpe-utils |
The gpe-utils category contains utility apps from the GPE environment. |
| java-virtuals |
The java-virtuals category contains packages which satisfy virtual dependencies. These virtuals install a file which is used by the java-config system to provide information like classpath and minimum required vm values. |
| kde-base |
The kde-base category contains core KDE packages. |
| kde-misc |
The kde-misc category contains various miscellaneous KDE packages. |
| lxde-base |
The lxde-base category contains core packages for LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. |
| mail-client |
The mail-client category contains email clients. |
| mail-filter |
The mail-filter category contains email filtering software. |
| mail-mta |
The mail-mta category contains mail transport agent packages. |
| media-fonts |
The media-fonts category contains fonts. |
| media-gfx |
The media-gfx category contains graphics-related packages. |
| media-libs |
The media-libs category contains media-related libraries. |
| media-plugins |
The media-plugins category contains plugin packages for various media applications. |
| media-radio |
The media-radio category contains radio-related media applications. |
| media-sound |
The media-sound category contains sound, music and audio applications. |
| media-tv |
The media-tv category contains television-related applications. |
| media-video |
The media-video category contains video-related applications. |
| net-analyzer |
The net-analyzer category contains network analysis software. |
| net-dialup |
The net-dialup category contains dialup-related networking software. |
| net-dns |
The net-dns category contains DNS (Domain Name Service) related software. |
| net-firewall |
The net-firewall category contains network firewall software. |
| net-fs |
The net-fs category contains network filesystem packages. |
| net-ftp |
The net-ftp contains FTP (File Transfer Protocol) software. |
| net-im |
The net-im category contains instant messaging software. |
| net-irc |
The net-irc category contains IRC (Internet Relay Chat) clients and servers. |
| net-libs |
The net-libs category contains libraries that are network-related. |
| net-mail |
The net-mail category contains various email-related utilities. |
| net-misc |
The net-misc category contains various miscellaneous networking tools and utilities. |
| net-nds |
The net-nds category contains NDS (NetWare Directory Services) software. |
| net-news |
The net-news category contains news-related network software. |
| net-nntp |
The net-nntp category contains NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) software. |
| net-p2p |
The net-p2p category contains peer-to-peer networking applications. |
| net-print |
The net-print category contains network printing packages. |
| net-proxy |
The net-proxy category contains network proxy software. |
| net-voip |
The net-voip category contains packages related to Voice-over-IP |
| net-wireless |
The net-wireless category contains wireless networking software and utilities. |
| net-zope |
The net-zope category contains all Zope (zope.org) related software including third party products and tools. |
| perl-core |
The perl-core category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Perl programming language. |
| razorqt-base |
The razorqt-base category contains core packages for Razor-Qt, the fast desktop environment based on Qt. |
| rox-base |
The rox-base category contains core Rox packages. |
| rox-extra |
The rox-extra category contains extra non-core Rox packages. |
| sci-astronomy |
The sci-astronomy category contains software that can be used in astronomical and related scientific environments. |
| sci-biology |
The sci-biology category contains software that can be used in biological and related scientific environments. |
| sci-calculators |
The sci-calculators category contains scientific calculator packages. |
| sci-chemistry |
The sci-chemistry category contains software that can be used in chemistral scientific environments. |
| sci-electronics |
The sci-electronics category contains electronics packages. |
| sci-geosciences |
The sci-geosciences category contains geosciences-related software. |
| sci-libs |
The sci-libs category contains various science-related libraries. |
| sci-mathematics |
The sci-mathematics category contains mathematical software. |
| sci-misc |
The sci-misc category contains various miscellaneous science applications which do not fit any other sci-* category. |
| sci-physics |
The sci-physics category contains physics related software. |
| sci-visualization |
The sci-visualization category contains scientific visualization applications. |
| sec-policy |
The sec-policy category contains security policies for access control systems such as SELinux. |
| sys-apps |
The sys-apps category contains various core system applications, and some non-core system applications which have not yet been moved out into other sys- categories. |
| sys-auth |
The sys-auth category contains applications and libraries to support authentication and authorization facilities. Here belongs PAM modules, NSS modules and login apps. |
| sys-block |
The sys-block category contains packages which work with block devices. |
| sys-boot |
The sys-boot category contains bootloaders and related tools. |
| sys-cluster |
The sys-cluster category contains cluster-related software. |
| sys-devel |
The sys-devel category contains various core system development tools and libraries. |
| sys-firmware |
The sys-firmware category contains misc. firmware and microcode. |
| sys-freebsd |
Ebuilds for the Gentoo/FreeBSD base system software. |
| sys-fs |
The sys-fs category contains filesystem tools and utilities. |
| sys-infiniband |
The sys-infiniband category contains OFED software stack and other infiniband related software. |
| sys-kernel |
The sys-kernel category contains kernel source ebuilds and kernel-related tools. |
| sys-libs |
The sys-libs category contains various system-level libraries. |
| sys-power |
The sys-power category contains software which handles power management, including CPU frequency scaling tools. |
| sys-process |
The sys-process category contains packages which query or manipulate processes. The 'cron' daemons are included in this. |
| virtual |
The virtual category contains packages which satisfy virtual dependencies. |
| www-apache |
The www-apache category contains modules for the Apache webserver. |
| www-apps |
The www-apps category contains various world wide web applications. |
| www-client |
The www-client category contains world wide web clients. |
| www-misc |
The www-misc category contains various miscellaneous world wide web software. |
| www-plugins |
The www-plugins category contains plug-ins for Web browsers. |
| www-servers |
The www-servers category contains web server packages. |
| x11-apps |
x11-apps contains applications distributed as part of X.Org X11. |
| x11-base |
The x11-base category contains various X11 base implementations. |
| x11-drivers |
x11-drivers contain drivers that interface with the core X11 server. |
| x11-libs |
The x11-libs category contains various X11-related libraries. |
| x11-misc |
The x11-misc category contains miscellaneous X11 applications which do not belong elsewhere. |
| x11-plugins |
The x11-plugins category contains plugin packages for various X11 applications. |
| x11-proto |
x11-proto contains the X11 protocol headers. |
| x11-terms |
The x11-terms category contains terminal emulators for X11 environments. |
| x11-themes |
The x11-themes category contains various theme and style packages for X11 applications. |
| x11-wm |
The x11-wm category contains X11 window managers. |
| xfce-base |
The xfce-base category contains base XFCE packages. |
| xfce-extra |
The xfce-extra category contains non-core XFCE applications. |