Re: RFC

[Jeffry Smith <jsmith@alum.mit.edu>]

Just to put in two cents from a lurker here, I recall a discussion way
back of "levels" -
LSB base 1 - minimum, non-graphical, bare-bones
LSB base 2 - above + some additional, X libs 
LSB base 3 - above + X itself
... and so on.

Personally, I consider putting basic stuff in /usr, stuff I'm sharing
across the net (exporting common directory) in /usr/share, and stuff
on the local machine in /usr/local.  No idea how this meets the FHS,
but it works for me.

jeff smith

Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:08:51PM -0500, djb@redhat.com wrote:
> >
> > Well, damn....not all ISVs need bash, either.  What's your point?  Most
> > do need X.  Deal.
> 
> Could there be profiles of LSB?
> 
> I see a number of purposes where X is not needed, notably the
> server market. On the other hand I do agree that most Linux boxes
> would need X, for ISVs to prepare their software in a portable way.
> 
> So we could have
> 
> 1. LSB graphical (with X)
> 2. LSB shell (without x)
> 
> I note that from a customer view it would not make sense to want to
> install a package requiring X, if X was not already installed.
> So in practice it would not matter if X was not installed
> on such a system.
> 
> Keld Simonsen
> 
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