I wrote: > No. Lsb is an "extra" package that you almost certainly don't need unless > you are running LSB-compliant closed-source software. LSB stands for > "Linux Standard Base". Google it.
Tzafrir Cohen writes: > 'aptitude rdepends lsb-base' gives results such as avahi-daemon, > apache2.2-common, bittorrent, dbus, x11-common, dhcpbd and even our own > exim4 . Lsb and lsb-base are two different packages: Package: lsb-base Priority: required Section: misc Installed-Size: 72 Maintainer: Chris Lawrence <lawre...@debian.org> Architecture: all Source: lsb Version: 3.2-20 Replaces: lsb (<< 2.0-6), lsb-core (<< 2.0-6) Depends: sed, ncurses-bin Conflicts: lsb (<< 2.0-6), lsb-core (<< 2.0-6) Filename: pool/main/l/lsb/lsb-base_3.2-20_all.deb Size: 19506 MD5sum: 40e8abbcba50297be6b2b271b3288e6e SHA1: 2d5e29a6dd47b85c52154dac1c0a4d1c708df341 SHA256: eca9b12ceb6749b1765535b5e0216d85e424cd72e93f8b2ad6bee4682ecc505a Description: Linux Standard Base 3.2 init script functionality The Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/) is a standard core system that third-party applications written for Linux can depend upon. . This package only includes the init-functions shell library, which may be used by other packages' initialization scripts for console logging and other purposes. > More and more init script, for instance, use /lib/lsb/init-functions . Which is the only thing that lsb-base contains. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
