A new, additional sort order of packages in smart?

[Basil Chupin]

Keith Roberts wrote:
> 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.
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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.

This is how I have smart setup from the start, and it is not quite what 
I am proposing.

Cheers.


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