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

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 5 May 2005 03:28:06 +0200 Michiel de Bruijne
<m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> 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.

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