I've made today a list of the current defined patterns - factory will have them on sunday at latest - and their grouping together. There are requirements between patterns, e.g. the kde pattern requires kde_bases and a couple of other patterns, the laptop pattern gets selected automatically if we figure out that installation is on a laptop - and then kde_laptop/gnome_laptop is added depending on whether gnome/kde are installed as well. So, this is not the complete picture of patterns but a high-level overview. Note also that the CDs will not contain all the patterns, e.g. the non-oss patterns are only on the add-on CD and the same applies definitely to some of the devel patterns. On the others I'm still checking. What are we missing? Any suggestions for improvement? Btw. for openSUSE 10.2 there's a bugzilla component "Pattern" that you can always report bugs against if something is broken. But currently I prefer an open discussion on the mailing list so that everybody can comment directly. Base Technologies ================= 32bit: 32Bit Runtime Environment (only on ppc64, x86-64) 64bit: 64Bit Runtime Environment (only on ppc) apparmor: Novell AppArmor base: openSUSE Base System console: Console Tools laptop: Laptop x86: x86 Runtime Environment (only on ia64) yast2_basis: YaST System Administration Graphical Environments ====================== gnome: GNOME Desktop Environment kde: KDE Desktop Environment xfce: XFCE Desktop Environment x11: X Window System fonts: Fonts KDE Desktop =========== kde_admin: KDE Administration Tools kde_basis: KDE Base System kde_development: KDE Development kde_edutainment: KDE Edutainment kde_games: KDE Games kde_help: KDE Help System kde_imaging: KDE Graphics kde_internet: KDE Internet kde_laptop: KDE Laptop kde_multimedia: KDE Multimedia kde_office: KDE Office kde_system: KDE System kde_utilities: KDE Utilities kde_xgl: KDE Desktop Effects GNOME Desktop ============= gnome_admin: GNOME Administration Tools gnome_basis: GNOME Base System gnome_development: GNOME Development gnome_games: GNOME Games gnome_imaging: GNOME Graphics gnome_laptop: GNOME Laptop gnome_multimedia: GNOME Multimedia gnome_office: GNOME Office gnome_utilities: GNOME Utilities gnome_xgl: GNOME Desktop Effects Desktop Functions ================= games: Games imaging: Graphics xml: XML and LaTeX Editing Tools Server Functions ================ dhcp_dns_server: DHCP and DNS Server directory_server: Directory Server (LDAP) file_server: File Server gateway_server: Internet Gateway lamp_server: Web and LAMP Server mail_server: Mail and News Server misc_server: Misc. Server network_admin: Network Administration print_server: Print Server xen_server: Xen Virtual Machine Host Server Non-OSS Software ================ non_oss: Misc. Non Open Source Packages non_oss_java: Java Environment Development =========== basis-devel: Basis Development devel_C_C++: C/C++ Development devel-kernel: Linux Kernel Development devel_mono: .NET Development devel_perl: Perl Development devel_python: Python Development devel_qt4: Qt4 Development devel_rails: Rails Development devel_ruby: Ruby on Rails Development devel_web: Web Development devel_yast: YaST Development Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126