[debian-devel:01263] Debian Section Policy (Re: mc-4.0)

[yochi@xxxxxxxxxxx]

やなぎはらです。

From: yochi@xxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <199706200209.CAA03154@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

yochi> やなぎはらです。
yochi> 
yochi> kikutani> > 本家には、utils 配下に mc_3.5.17 がありますね。
yochi> kikutani> 
yochi> kikutani> あれ、rexではmiscなんですが、utils にしたほうがいいのかな。
yochi> 
yochi> セクションの分類ですが、
yochi> misc にあった大半は、utils などに移動しています。

Bo 以降のパッケージの分類(セクション)は Debian の HomePage を見ると
良くわかりますね。
以下に抜粋したものを載せます。()は、実際のセクション名です。


Administration Utilities (admin)
	Utilities to administer system resources, manage user accounts,
	etc. 

Base Utilities (base)
	Basic needed utilities of every Debian system (you needn't
	install this, they're provided only for upgrading purposes). 

Communication Programs (comm)
	Software to use you modem in the old fashioned style. 

Development (devel)
	Development utilities, compilers, development environments,
	libraries, etc. 

Documentation (docs)
	Collections of FAQs and HOWTOs and documents trying to
	explain everything (at least everything related to Debian/GNU
	Linux). This sections also includes the software needed to
	browse documentation (man, info, etc). 

Editors	(editors)
	Software to edit files. Programming environments. 

Electronics (electronics)
	Electronics utilities. 

Games (games)
	Programs to spend a nice time with after all this setting up. 

Graphics (graphics)
	Editors, Viewers, Converters... Everything to became an artist...

Ham Radio (hamradio)
	Software for ham radio. 

Interpreters (interpreters)
	All kind of interpreters for interpreted languages. Macro
	processors. 

Libraries (libs)
	Libraries to make other programs work. They provide special
	features to developers. 

Mail (mail)
	Programs to route, read, and compose E-mail messages. 

Mathematics (math)
	Math software. 

Miscelaneous (misc)
	Miscelaneous utilities that didn't fit well anywhere else. 

Network	(net)
	Daemons and clients to connect your Debian GNU/Linux system to
	the world. 

Newsgroups (news)
	Software to access Usenet, to set up news servers, etc. 

Other OS's and file systems (otherosfs)
	Software to run other (yes! they exist!) operating system programs,
	and to use their filesystems. 

Shells (shells)
	Command shells. Friendly user interfaces for beginers. 

Sound (sound)
	Utilities to deal with sound: mixers, players, recorders,
	CD players, etc. 

TeX (tex)
	The famous typesetting software! 

Text Processing (text)
	Utilities to format and print text documents 

Utilities (utils)
	Miscelaneous utilities. 

Web Software (web)
	Software to run a WWW server, WWW clients, proxies, etc... 

X Window (x11)
	Software to run X servers and clients, and many applications. 

+---------------------------------------------------------+
 Yoshiaki Yanagihara		E-mail: yochi@xxxxxxxxxxx           
					yosiaki@debian.org
 Debian JP Project
 [Japanese] http://www.debian.linux.or.jp/
 [English ] Sorry, now under construction.