On 8/28/19 2:27 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 05:18:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> [email protected] writes: >> >>> 1. building appstores or repositories that can be used by different >>> Linux distributions, comforming to different levels of LSB, and then >>> populated by different apps devellopers, hopefully including big >>> packages like gnome and kde, and possibly also packagers picking up >>> sources, maybe even debian packagers. In this way even smaller distros >>> could have a large set of packages, and developpers could have one place >>> to address a lot of distros. This could be built for the different >>> architectures including i386, amd64 and arm. >> >> This is a dying mechanism of software distribution. You can achieve the >> same goal by shipping a container or some container-like thing that >> includes all the shared libraries you care about. > > It seems a waiste of space if you install many such packages. > and where is the appstore for all of these packages? > It seems like you and others don't grasp what I am talking about. > > >> Given the lead time for a new standardization effort, I'm dubious there >> will be any remaining use case for this by the time a standard ships. >> Containers solve the problem of isolation from OS-level software changes >> in a more thorough and far less expensive way than trying to standardize >> the OS-level ABI. > > many distros still supports lsb 3.1 or 4.1
Well that also means that your distribution is vulnerable to a number of know security issues in the libraries that are part of the LSB 3.1 and 4.1 specification that have not been fixed because upstream no longer supported those code streams when those issues came to light. However, it is certainly your choice to run a system with known vulnerabilities. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Distinguished Architect LINUX Technical Team Lead Public Cloud [email protected] IRC: robjo
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