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+# From src/release/sysinstall/index.c,v 1.57 1998/10/15 
+
+    "applications", "User application software.",
+    "astro", "Applications related to astronomy.",
+    "archivers", "Utilities for archiving and unarchiving data.",
+    "audio", "Audio utilities - most require a supported sound card.",
+    "biology", "Software related to Biology.",
+    "benchmarks", "Utilities for measuring system performance.",
+    "benchmarking", "Utilities for measuring system performance.",
+    "cad", "Computer Aided Design utilities.",
+    "chinese", "Ported software for the Chinese market.",
+    "comms", "Communications utilities.",
+    "converters", "Format conversion utilities..",
+    "databases", "Database software.",
+    "devel", "Software development utilities and libraries.",
+    "development", "Software development utilities and libraries.",
+    "deskutils", "Various Desktop utilities.",
+    "documentation", "Document preparation utilities.",
+    "editors", "Common text editors.",
+    "emulation", "Utilities for emulating other OS types.",
+    "emulators", "Utilities for emulating other OS types.",
+    "games", "Various and sundry amusements.",
+    "german", "Ported software for Germanic countries.",
+    "graphics", "Graphics libraries and utilities.",
+    "japanese", "Ported software for the Japanese market.",
+    "kde", "Software for the K Desktop Environment.",
+    "korean", "Ported software for the Korean market.",
+    "lang", "Computer languages.",
+    "languages", "Computer languages.",
+    "libraries", "Software development libraries.",
+    "mail", "Electronic mail packages and utilities.",
+    "math", "Mathematical computation software.",
+    "mbone", "Applications and utilities for the mbone.",
+    "misc", "Miscellaneous utilities.",
+    "net", "Networking utilities.",
+    "networking", "Networking utilities.",
+    "news", "USENET News support software.",
+    "numeric", "Mathematical computation software.",
+    "offix", "An office automation suite of sorts.",
+    "orphans", "Packages without a home elsewhere.",
+    "perl5", "Utilities/modules for the PERL5 language..",
+    "pilot", "Software support for the USR Palm Pilot(tm).",
+    "plan9", "Software from the plan9 Operating System.",
+    "print", "Utilities for dealing with printing.",
+    "printing", "Utilities for dealing with printing.",
+    "programming", "Software development utilities and libraries.",
+    "python", "Software related to the python language.",
+    "russian", "Ported software for the Russian market.",
+    "security", "System security software.",
+    "shells", "Various shells (tcsh, bash, etc).",
+    "sysutils", "Various system utilities.",
+    "textproc", "Text processing/search utilities.",
+    "tcl75", "TCL v7.5 and packages which depend on it.",
+    "tcl76", "TCL v7.6 and packages which depend on it.",
+    "tcl80", "TCL v8.0 and packages which depend on it.",
+    "tcl81", "TCL v8.1 and packages which depend on it.",
+    "tk41", "Tk4.1 and packages which depend on it.",
+    "tk42", "Tk4.2 and packages which depend on it.",
+    "tk80", "Tk8.0 and packages which depend on it.",
+    "tk81", "Tk8.1 and packages which depend on it.",
+    "troff", "TROFF Text formatting utilities.",
+    "utils", "Various user utilities.",
+    "utilities", "Various user utilities.",
+    "vietnamese", "Ported software for the Vietnamese market.",
+    "www", "WEB utilities (browers, HTTP servers, etc).",
+    "x11", "X Window System based utilities.",
+    "x11-clocks", "X Window System based clocks.",
+    "x11-fm", "X Window System based file managers.",
+    "x11-fonts", "X Window System fonts.",
+    "x11-toolkits", "X Window System based development toolkits.",
+    "x11-wm", "X Window System Window Managers.",