Standard package names (was: Re: Packaging and installation)

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Dan Kegel wrote:
> Presumably, packages that are part of all minimal conforming distributions
> should be named the same.  LSB should specify those package names.
> The initial set of names should be as close to current practice as possible.
> 
> This sounds like a small, reasonable task.  Is it?

No :)

The best we can do (at least in the near future) is define a set of packages
that declare a form of LSB conformancy. So a package like "fsg-fhs" will
mean that if it is installed the system has everything that the fhs states.
Versioned dependencies can be used of course.

Wichert.

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