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author | Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | 2019-08-25 20:21:15 +0300 |
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committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-08-29 14:02:20 +0100 |
commit | fb064356af615d67d85b65942103bf943d84d290 (patch) | |
tree | 1500abbd0c01ba75ce3af84807c1cb375b136234 /README.LSB | |
parent | 684fc36402a23760b203f4761f284043031c799c (diff) | |
download | openembedded-core-contrib-fb064356af615d67d85b65942103bf943d84d290.tar.gz |
Remove LSB support
LSB as a standard isn't current and isn't well suited to embedded
anyway. Its putting artifical constraints on the system and with modern
layer technology, would now be better off as its own layer. As such
its time to split it out.
The only part with some (marginal) usage is lsb_release,
which is split from the lsb package into an own lsb-release
package.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'README.LSB')
-rw-r--r-- | README.LSB | 29 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/README.LSB b/README.LSB deleted file mode 100644 index fecbe548b7..0000000000 --- a/README.LSB +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -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/] - -* GTK+ 2 is provided by meta-oe. It is noted that GTK+ 2 is end of life - and use of GTK+ 2 isn't recommended. - -* 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. - -* pax (POSIX standard archive) tool is not provided. |