Re: extra commands in lsbsi

"Christopher Yeoh" <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:28:02 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.implementation
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At 2004/1/29 15:56-0800  Wichmann, Mats D writes:
> Further to my data gathering on the lsbsi,
> here's a report of the list of entries in
> five directories that are presumed to be
> commands, which are not in the LSB spec.
> Not all of these can actually be removed
> and leave the lsbsi at all usable; and some
> are there because I still didn't go back
> and do the cleanup work on coreutils that
> used to be present in the old set of
> fileutils/textutils/sh-utils.
> 
> Comments on what should be removed are,
> however, welcome:

I think it depends on whether we want to have a bootable system or not
(eg just chroot).  Not bootable would make the si less usable as a
system, but probably a better testbed for apps.  But stuff like
bashbug and glibcbug can obviously be removed.

Chris
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