You are at the top of the packages tree. The packages collection is divided into categories of packages.
Here are the one-line descriptions for each of the categories, a complete list of all packages and one with all IPv6 enabled packages is also available:
| archivers: | Archivers |
| audio: | Audio tools |
| benchmarks: | Benchmarking tools |
| biology: | Software for the biological sciences |
| cad: | CAD tools |
| chat: | communication programs |
| comms: | Communication utilities |
| converters: | document format and character code converters |
| cross: | Cross-platform development utilities |
| databases: | Databases |
| devel: | Development utilities |
| editors: | Editors |
| emulators: | Emulators for other operating systems |
| finance: | Monetary, financial and related applications |
| fonts: | Fonts |
| games: | Games |
| graphics: | Graphics tools and libraries |
| ham: | Amateur packet radio tools |
| inputmethod: | Input method tools and libraries |
| lang: | Programming languages |
| mail: | Electronic mail utilities |
| math: | Mathematics |
| mbone: | Multi-cast backBone applications |
| meta-pkgs: | Collections of other packages |
| misc: | Miscellaneous utilities |
| net: | Networking tools |
| news: | Network news |
| parallel: | Applications dealing with parallelism in computing |
| pkgtools: | Tools for use in the packages collection |
| print: | Desktop publishing |
| security: | Security tools |
| shells: | Shells |
| sysutils: | System utilities |
| textproc: | Text processing utilities (does not include desktop publishing) |
| time: | clocks, calendars, daily planners and other time related applications |
| wm: | window managers (for X) |
| www: | Packages related to the World Wide Web |
| x11: | Packages to support the X window system |