Wake Up and Smell the Coffee It's Not 1970!
Steve Schveighoffer
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Tue Mar 28 10:22:49 PST 2000
Michael Stone wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 10:22:58PM +0200, delau wrote:
> > How about dedicated servers? It would be nice if I could select "LSB Core"
> > and "Bind" for a dedicated DNS server. I wouldn't need X or any other GUI
> > for that, do I? And because I installed a LSB compliant system, I should be
> > able to add another package to add functionality (a FTP server to load my
> > zone files for example).
>
> Why does there need to be a specification for dns servers? For an
> application that simple, I'm not sure that LSB is relevant. To date, LSB
> has concentrated on desktop applications--because that's where the
> problems are.
>
Yeah, but don't DNS servers need to have the correct version of libc?
Don't DNS server developers want to avoid porting to different linux
systems? Wouldn't DNS developers want a proven packaging method to
install on "LSB compliant" systems? The same argument for having an LSB
exists for every application developed by a third party, not just GUI
apps.
-Steve
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