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Applications

Administration
Non-core applications which relate to system administration.
Archiving
Tools for archiving, compressing and uncompressing files or groups of files.
CD Recording
Software for writing CDs and DVDs, and for working with .iso files.
Cryptography
Cryptographic (encryption, decryption, steganography and signing) software.
Documentation
Various miscellaneous documentation collections.
Editors
Text editors.
Emacs
Extension packages for the Emacs text editor.
Miscellaneous
Various miscellaneous application packages which don't belong anywhere else.
Portage
Software which works with portage or ebuilds.
Shells
Shells and their extensions.
Text
Tools for working with human-language text files.

Development

Databases
Libraries and utilities for database related programming.
Haskell
Libraries and utilities relevant to the Haskell programming language.
Languages
Various programming language implementations and related tools.
Libraries
Various miscellaneous programming libraries.
Perl
Libraries and utilities relevant to the Perl programming language.
Python
Libraries, utilities or bindings written in or for the Python programming language.
Utilities
Various miscellaneous development utilities.

Mail

MTA
Mail transport agent packages.

Media

Fonts
Fonts.
Graphics
Graphics-related packages.
Libraries
Media-related libraries.

Network

Dns
DNS (Domain Name Service) related software.
Firewall
Network firewall software.
Libraries
Libraries that are network-related.
Mail
Various email-related utilities.
Miscellaneous
Various miscellaneous networking tools and utilities.

Perl

Core
Libraries and utilities relevant to the Perl programming language.

System

Applications
Various core system applications, and some non-core system applications which have not yet been moved out into other sys- categories.
Authentication
Applications and libraries to support authentication and authorization facilities. Here belongs PAM modules, NSS modules and login apps.
Boot
Bootloaders and related tools.
Development
Various core system development tools and libraries.
Filesystems
Filesystem tools and utilities.
Kernel
Kernel source ebuilds and kernel-related tools.
Libraries
Various system-level libraries.
Process
Packages which query or manipulate processes. The 'cron' daemons are included in this.

WWW

Client
World wide web clients.
Servers
Web server packages.

X11

Applications
Applications distributed as part of X.Org X11.
Libraries
Various X11-related libraries.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous X11 applications which do not belong elsewhere.
Protocols
The X11 protocol headers.
Terminals
Terminal emulators for X11 environments.