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Owen Taylor
otaylor at redhat.com
Mon Aug 9 18:54:52 EEST 2004
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 05:25, Mike Hearn wrote:
> The other concern I have about the LSB is that currently it seems most
> distros don't actually install the LSB conformance packages. They are
> very small and only add things like /etc/lsb-release, a symlink for the
> linker and so on, but still distros like Fedora and SuSE don't seem to
> include it in the base package sets. The LSB has been out for a long
> time now, so this does worry me. How do you know if what you're
> installing into is LSB compliant if the necessary files and symlinks
> aren't in place?
Well, if packaging as an RPM, you simply
Requires: lsb >= 2.0
Or whatever is appropriate. If people start actively taking advantage
of the LSB, I'm sure it will get moved into the base package set.
> Last concern about the LSB I have is that I think it unlikely open
> source desktop apps will ever actually be LSB conformant because they
> will want to use libraries outside of whatever platform is specified and
> the LSB specifically prohibits this. You might get a lot of informal
> "mostly" compliant apps though.
I see this as very much a one-way-or-the-other
- If you want an app that is binary compatible across distributions
then you should restrict yourself to the LSB.
- If you don't care about cross-distribution binary compatibility then
you can use whatever you like on the platform you want to run on.
Open-source apps typically don't need to be binary compatible across
distributions because there are always people out there eager to
rebuild for their favorite distribution.
I honestly don't know what the interest is in cross-distro binary
compatibility in general. But I do know that if you *do* want to
see cross-distro binary compatibility, then you should be working
to extend the LSB to cover the libraries you need.
Regards,
Owen
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