Will Gentoo be LSB certified?

DesertMadman · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 15

THe PR for LSB certification is here http://linuxpr.com/releases/4902.html

Does Gentoo plan to become LSB certified? I hope so - its such a good distro, it would be a shame to b reak standards - and it would make porting apps a lot easier.

The RPM as a basis for packages I heard about may be the one area where non-complice may arise. Anyone know if LSB 1.1 require RPM?

asimon · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 9:38 am Post subject: Re: Will Gentoo be LSB certified?

KiTaSuMbA · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 430 Location: Naples Italy

Conformity is generally good but it starts to be a pain when things that work pretty good have to work worse to be compliant with others. Why would Gentoo need to be LSB compliant? So that people can jump from Mdk to gentoo and backwards without learning any basics? Why should gentoo cripple it's init.d format to make it look nice for LSB?
My "other"

favorite distro is also far away from being LSB-compliant. Yet, slack's init.d is the easiest one around for every-day custom hacks...
The day I see gentoo's ebuilds circulating as SRPMs I will know I should start looking for a fresh distro... :cry:

Let others be united under bloatware "we got everything" distros, I prefer being a "separatist" under a source-built, hand-made, speeding-like-h3ll one!!!

PS: h3ll is a *beep* word? hmmm....
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asimon · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 1:14 pm Post subject: Re: we couldn't care less

klieber · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 1:26 pm Post subject:

drobbins has stated that Gentoo will likely maintain the "spirit" of LSB standards, but because of a few of the more onerous requirements (surrounding RPMs, IIRC), it likely won't be LSB certified.

--kurt
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KiTaSuMbA · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 430 Location: Naples Italy

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

I was quite in favor of the LSB when it first started. Having used RPM, I am disappointed
that it is a requirement for LSB compliance. I find it ironic/amusing that I end up choosing
a non-compliant distro.
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LSB compliant distributions are all fine and good, but the day I *have* to use an rpm on gentoo is the day I switch to Sorcerer or Rock.
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fuxored · n00b Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 71

I've actually installed an RPM in Gentoo, but only because I had no choice(commercial app). While I think having a standard and comformity could definately help Linux gain more recognition, I don't totally agree with the LSB. I don't care for RPM, and don't think it should be a requirment.

line72 · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 212

I hate rpms too. But unfortunately sometimes you do get stuck installing an rpm, but it might be nice of gentoo used a program like checkinstall (http://checkinstall.izto.org/) that after it installed something from source it put it into the rpm database. Therefore you don't ever have to use rpms, but if you decide you want to, you have a full rpm database. Might be kinda nice. please don't hate me for mentioning this : )

klieber · Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 2:08 pm Post subject:

This thread is getting OT and I believe the original question has been answered.

So, locking.

--kurt
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