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The Linux Standard Base gets some applications
The Linux Standard Base gets some applications
Posted Sep 7, 2006 7:53 UTC (Thu) by niner (subscriber, #26151)In reply to: The Linux Standard Base gets some applications by job
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You certainly felt wrong. SuSE was the first distribution to be LSB compilant.
And yes LSB requires that RPM packages _can be installed_ on an LSB compilant system. It did never state that the distribution should be RPM based. As as you maybe know, Red Hat isn't even the only distribution to use RPM as package manager...
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The Linux Standard Base gets some applications
Posted Sep 10, 2006 14:37 UTC (Sun) by hazelsct (subscriber, #3659) [Link]
Indeed. You can make Debian lsb-compliant by installing a couple of packages.