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On Thursday 05 May 2005 03:28, Michiel de Bruijne wrote: |
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> On Thursday 05 May 2005 01:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > For us to support LSB: |
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> > |
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> > * We'd have to use RPM instead of portage |
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> That's not correct, quote from LSB: |
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> "The distribution itself may use a different packaging format for its own |
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> packages, and of course it may use any available mechanism for installing |
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> the LSB-conformant packages." |
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> So basically we can continue to do rpm2targz like we do now and still be |
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> LSB-compliant. |
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Only if it's wrapped up automatically. At the minimum it would require a |
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mapping from lsb dependencies to gentoo dependencies. But yes, we wouldn't |
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need to throw portage out. It just needs rpm file support. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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