Re: LSB

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@home.com>]

On 30-Jun-2001 Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 09:56:47PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote:
>> Chad Miller <cmiller@surfsouth.com> writes:
>> 
>> > What are we going to do about the LSB, which specifies RPM?  Ignore it?
>> 
>> Use alien or rpm (alien is best for the system I think)
> 
> Or we could just use RPM. 
> <URL: http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/gLSB/gLSB/x12251.html> 
> indicates an LSB compliant RPM may only depend upon the lsb package.
> 

indeed, the LSB does not force us to USE rpms, only that a user should be able
to install one on the system -- mostly to allow 3rd party packages like Star
Office.