From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp30.hccnet.nl (smtp30.hccnet.nl [62.251.0.40]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j451S51I023343 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 01:28:05 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.1] by smtp30.hccnet.nl via fia135-125.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.125.135] with ESMTP for id j451S7wO012753 (8.13.2/2.05); Thu, 5 May 2005 03:28:07 +0200 (MEST) From: Michiel de Bruijne To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo could become certified for IBM Server Hardware Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 03:28:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <1115245904.4665.23.camel@enterprise> <20050505001415.39e44e97@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <20050505001415.39e44e97@snowdrop> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505050328.06938.m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> X-Archives-Salt: a60c6758-f595-437c-9bf3-b57207542f4c X-Archives-Hash: a59bbb0759d1c9560f3612e24812886f 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. > * 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. > * We'd have to make X support mandatory Only in the LSB-profile, the normal profile doesn't need to have X-libs installed. > * We'd have to ship ancient versions of core libraries There is some interest in that already, see GLEP19 > In fact, basically, we'd have to become RedHat. I don't agree. I think the Gentoo-framework is flexible enough to give us an _optional_ LSB-compliant system (e.g. by selecting a profile) without making any consessions on the current Gentoo-structure. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list