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:
| x11: Packages to support the X window system | |
| 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 | |
| filesystems: File systems, and file system related packages | |
| finance: Monetary, financial and related applications | |
| fonts: Fonts | |
| games: Games | |
| geography: Software for geographical-related uses | |
| graphics: Graphics tools and libraries | |
| ham: Wireless communication tools and applications | |
| 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 | |
| multimedia: Multimedia 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: X11 window managers, configuration tools, and themes | |
| www: Packages related to the World Wide Web |