On Thursday 05 May 2005 03:28, Michiel de Bruijne 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.
Only if it's wrapped up automatically. At the minimum it would require a mapping from lsb dependencies to gentoo dependencies. But yes, we wouldn't need to throw portage out. It just needs rpm file support. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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