From Mageia wiki
Here is the list of the groups to use for building a RPM package for Mageia. It is now different from the old one invented and used by Red Hat, because it appeared (to our side) that it was no more suitable for today's distribution.
This list has been revised for Mageia 3.
List of official groups
| Group | New for mga3? | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | ||
| Archiving/Backup | ||
| Archiving/Cd burning | for Cd/DVD/Bluray burning software and other iso (or other disk images) manipulation | |
| Archiving/Compression | ||
| Archiving/Other | ||
| Communications/Bluetooth | new | |
| Communications/Dial-Up | new | for software related to modems or isdn |
| Communications/Fax | new | |
| Communications/Mobile | new | for software related to mobile phone and handheld devices |
| Communications/Radio | new | for software related to amateur radio |
| Communications/Serial | new | for serial and other low-level communication protocols |
| Communications/Telephony | new | for wired and VoIP telephony |
| Databases | ||
| Development/Basic | new | |
| Development/C | ||
| Development/C++ | ||
| Development/C# | new | |
| Development/Databases | ||
| Development/Erlang | new | |
| Development/GNOME and GTK+ | ||
| Development/Java | ||
| Development/KDE and Qt | ||
| Development/Kernel | ||
| Development/OCaml | new | |
| Development/Other | ||
| Development/Perl | ||
| Development/PHP | ||
| Development/Python | ||
| Development/Ruby | ||
| Development/Tools | new | for version-control and multi-language tools (e.g. IDE, debuggers, ...) |
| Development/X11 | ||
| Documentation | new | for user-documentation such as handbooks. API documentation and other development documentation stays in the appropriate Development group |
| Editors | ||
| Education | ||
| Emulators | ||
| File tools | Tools for binary files and file systems. | |
| Games/Adventure | ||
| Games/Arcade | ||
| Games/Boards | ||
| Games/Cards | ||
| Games/Other | ||
| Games/Puzzles | Logic-based games, puzzles and other reflexion-based games | |
| Games/Shooter | new | for third-person shooters, as well as shoot'em-up |
| Games/Simulation | new | for games, based on simulations (e.g flight, driving, space, ... etc.) |
| Games/Sports | for sports-related games, including races and sport simulation. | |
| Games/Strategy | ||
| Geography | new | for maps and GPs-related software |
| Graphical desktop/Cinnamon | ||
| Graphical desktop/Enlightenment | ||
| Graphical desktop/GNOME | ||
| Graphical desktop/Icewm | ||
| Graphical desktop/KDE | ||
| Graphical desktop/MATE | ||
| Graphical desktop/Other | ||
| Graphical desktop/WindowMaker | ||
| Graphical desktop/Xfce | ||
| Graphics/3D | new | |
| Graphics/Editors and Converters | new | |
| Graphics/Utilities | new | |
| Graphics/Photography | new | |
| Graphics/Scanning | new | |
| Graphics/Viewers | new | |
| Monitoring | ||
| Networking/File transfer | ||
| Networking/IRC | ||
| Networking/Instant messaging | ||
| Networking/Mail | ||
| Networking/News | ||
| Networking/Other | ||
| Networking/Remote access | ||
| Networking/WWW | ||
| Office/Dictionary | new | |
| Office/Finance | new | |
| Office/Management | new | |
| Office/Organizer | new | |
| Office/Utilities | new | |
| Office/Spreadsheet | new | |
| Office/Suite | new | |
| Office/Word processor | new | |
| Publishing | ||
| Sciences/Astronomy | ||
| Sciences/Biology | ||
| Sciences/Chemistry | ||
| Sciences/Computer science | ||
| Sciences/Geosciences | ||
| Sciences/Mathematics | ||
| Sciences/Other | ||
| Sciences/Physics | ||
| Security | new | for security protocols, forensics and ID systems |
| Shells | ||
| Sound/Editors and Converters | new | |
| Sound/Midi | new | |
| Sound/Mixers | new | |
| Sound/Players | new | |
| Sound/Utilities | new | |
| System/Base | ||
| System/Boot and Init | ||
| System/Cluster | ||
| System/Configuration | ||
| System/Fonts/True type | ||
| System/Fonts/Type1 | ||
| System/Fonts/X11 bitmap | ||
| System/Internationalization | ||
| System/Kernel and hardware | ||
| System/Libraries | ||
| System/Networking | ||
| System/Packaging | ||
| System/Printing | ||
| System/Servers | ||
| System/X11 | ||
| Terminals | ||
| Text tools | Tools for readable text files. This includes mark-up (e.g. XML) and natural languages. | |
| Toys | ||
| Video/Editors and Converters | new | |
| Video/Players | new | |
| Video/Television | new | Tools to watch tv and for media center related software. |
| Video/Utilities | new |
Notes
- A special group, Development/Debug, is used for debug packages.
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- Vincent Danen
- tropikhajma
- Rémy CLOUARD
- Malo Deniélou
