On Thu, 5 May 2005 03:28:06 +0200 Michiel de Bruijne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thursday 05 May 2005 01:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > For us to support LSB: | > | > * We'd have to use RPM instead of portage | | That's not correct, quote from LSB: | "The distribution itself may use a different packaging format for its | own packages, and of course it may use any available mechanism for | installing the LSB-conformant packages." | | So basically we can continue to do rpm2targz like we do now and still | be LSB-compliant.
Except that we'd have to handle arbitrary rpm deps properly. | > * We'd have to support all the daft FHS ideas like /media, /srv and | > /wedonotunderstandtheunixfs | | Like you said before: | "Thing is, it really isn't a problem. Data files go in $(datadir), | configuration files go in $(sysconfdir) and so on, and the build | system handles the rest. It doesn't matter what $(datadir) is actually | defined to be (unless your code really really sucks)." | | With a proper build system you can install the same package in the | current Gentoo FHS or the LSB FHS. Except that FHS is just plain wrong. | > * We'd have to make X support mandatory | | Only in the LSB-profile, the normal profile doesn't need to have | X-libs installed. So, we'd have to make X support mandatory. Yeah, greaaaat server platform that would make. | > * We'd have to ship ancient versions of core libraries | | There is some interest in that already, see GLEP19 No, ancient. Not old, ancient. And GLEP 19 doesn't involve any backporting of patches to said ancient versions. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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