Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo could become certified for IBM Server Hardware

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 04 May 2005 17:31:44 -0500 David Krider <david@davidkrider.com>
wrote:
| On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 17:26 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > On Wed, 4 May 2005 18:17:53 +0200 Michiel de Bruijne
| > <m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> wrote:
| > | Second showstopper is lack of (LSB-)certification;
| > | Like it or not, the typical managers in this world say if product
| > | x isn't  y-certified we wont use/support it. Gentoo needs a
| > | profile for a  LSB-compliant system.
| > 
| > Don't be silly.
| 
| Forgive me to come into a list where I should probably just be
| lurking, but this is really what I subscribed to the list for: why is
| this idea silly?

For us to support LSB:

* We'd have to use RPM instead of portage
* We'd have to support all the daft FHS ideas like /media, /srv and
/wedonotunderstandtheunixfs
* We'd have to make X support mandatory
* We'd have to ship ancient versions of core libraries

In fact, basically, we'd have to become RedHat.

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