A new, additional sort order of packages in smart?

[Keith Roberts]

Hi Basil. What you need is to fire up smart gui and look 
under View->Tree_style and click on Groups. This will sort 
the packages as you requested.

Keith

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On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Basil Chupin wrote:

> To: smart at labix.org
> From: Basil Chupin <blchupin at tpg.com.au>
> Subject: A new, additional sort order of packages in smart?
> 
> Is it possible to add an additional sort order for 
> packages in the smart package manager?
> 
> The one I am thinking of is the one which exists in the 
> SUSE's YOU software manager which has a group called 
> SELECTION which groups packages according to such headings 
> as-
> 
> Graphical Base System
> KDE Desktop Environment
> All of KDE
> GNOME System
> Games
> Multimedia
> Kernel Development
> Network and Server
> 
> and so on.
> 
> These groupings not only greatly help in locating packages whose exact
> names are not known but their general purpose is known as well as
> installing all packages which are required for a specific purpose (eg,
> multimedia).
> 
> Cheers.