Extending Linux [LWN.net]

Extending Linux

Posted Sep 19, 2002 10:51 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (guest, #2814)
In reply to: Extending Linux by proski
Parent article: Extending Linux

so, what you're saying is that ex. Gentoo will never become LSB compliant?

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Extending Linux

Posted Sep 19, 2002 11:02 UTC (Thu) by Peter (guest, #1127) [Link]

so, what you're saying is that ex. Gentoo will never become LSB compliant?

The LSB requires that an RPM file be installable. It does not seem to preclude the use of things like alien to make this happen.

I have no idea whether or not Gentoo plans to support the LSB, but that's a separate question. The issue at hand is whether or not a third-party LSB-compliant app, supplied in RPM format, will install and run on a given Linux distribution.