On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Chris Adams wrote:
Is there any value in the redhat-lsb package - does anything actually
need it?
redhat-lsb has always pulled in cups on servers, and now with RHEL5.5,
cups pulls in poppler, which pulls in gtk2, some X libraries, and an
icon theme. Just what I wanted on a mail server or a DNS/RADIUS server.
The LSB package is a 'keystone' to ensure that services
through defined API's are available, so that a third-party ISV
might be able to ship a single binary (that used only those
defined interfaces) and know that it will work on may
distributions. Think: high end statistical and engineering
packages.
Why would a server be installing packages oriented to ensure a
workstatation environment for ISV applications? That is the
usual use case for 'redhat-lsb' being installed. It may
appear to be a leaf node within a closed distribution view
where such API guarantees are solved other ways, but it is **
not ** a leaf node when one expands the forest to include
third-party ISV content, but rather a branch across to such
binaries
-- Russ herrold
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