A new, additional sort order of packages in smart?

[Pascal Bleser]

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Basil Chupin wrote:
...
>>> 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).

What you are asking for is yast2 repository specific.
Those "selections" are kept in .sel files in yast2 repositories and are
not available with rpm-md or apt-rpm (or whatever else) package repository.

Hence, I really don't think it makes any sense, especially as you have a
mix of different repository types in your channel list.
Furthermore, that selection thing is being deprecated in favor of
another, similar but more powerful approach in SUSE 10.2 ("patterns").
See threads on the opensuse-factory at opensuse.org mailing-list.

cheers
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