From c96aa431f2f56d023b84d28e049065eef2a7490f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Kanavin Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 16:07:47 +0300 Subject: README.LSB: describe oe-core's deviations from the LSB spec Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin --- README.LSB | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.LSB (limited to 'README.LSB') diff --git a/README.LSB b/README.LSB new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c9dca3fc75 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.LSB @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +OE-Core aims to be able to provide basic LSB compatible images. There +are some challenges for OE as LSB isn't always 100% relevant to its +target embedded and IoT audiences. + +One challenge is that the LSB spec is no longer being actively +developed [https://github.com/LinuxStandardBase/lsb] and has +components which are end of life or significantly dated. OE +therefore provides compatibility with the following caveats: + +* Qt4 is provided by the separate meta-qt4 layer. Its noted that Qt4 + is end of life and this isn't something the core project regularly + tests any longer. Users are recommended to group together to support + maintenance of that layer. [http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-qt4/] + +* mailx has been dropped since its no longer being developed upstream + and there are better, more modern replacements such as s-nail + (http://sdaoden.eu/code.html) or mailutils (http://mailutils.org/). + +* A few perl modules that were required by LSB 4.x aren't provided: + libclass-isa, libenv, libdumpvalue, libfile-checktree, + libi18n-collate, libpod-plainer. + +* libpng 1.2 isn't provided; oe-core includes the latest release of libpng + instead. + -- cgit 1.2.3-korg