Re: [gentoo-server] Linux Standard Base and Linux Core Consortium

[Andrew Fant]

Jose,
    I would suspect that the odds of Gentoo complying with either of these 
standards are slim to none as long as they define RPM as the mandatory 
package management format.

Andy


--On Friday, November 19, 2004 18:05:53 +0100 Jose Gonzalez Gomez 
<jgonzalez@×××××××××××.com> wrote:

>
>     Hi there,
>
>     I found today two new acronyms: LSB (Linux Standard Base)[1] and LCC
> (Linux Core Consortium)[2]
>
>     [1] http://www.linuxbase.org/
>     [2] http://www.mandrakesoft.com/lcc/faq
>
>     They seem to be interesting, as they intend to build on a common
> base, specified in the linux standard base, so providers of commercial
> software are able to certify their products on this platform, so any
> distribution complying with it may get kind of automatically certified
> (or something like that). I just wanted to mention here to hear your
> opinions, and comment on the possibility / interest of Gentoo complying
> with LSB.
>
>     Best regards
>     Jose