[lsb-discuss] libjpeg API issues

[Bruce Dubbs]

Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 05/01/2013 05:17 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> writes:
>>
>>> the issue is that we haven't seen the distros themselves eager to
>>> support both parts of this "fork", if I can use that term here.  The Red
>>> Hat / Fedora camp has come down on one side, the SUSE camp on the other
>>> side, for example.
>>
>> As near as I can tell, SUSE is also using libjpeg-turbo.  See, for
>> example:
>>
>>      https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807183
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>
>
> okay, the bug indicates people in the opensuse team are missing
> something.  It would be really useful if someone from LSB would update
> with information.  There seems to be an impression that the somewhat
> artificial split between lsb "core" and "desktop" means you can leave
> out parts required by the "desktop" part, which is not the case

A bit off topic, but in general, why not?  A server can be built without 
Xorg at all.  I've done it many times.

Is this common?  Probably not.  Is it useful?  Yes.  I think the 
configuration is used relatively frequently on supercomputer clusters. 
For example, the last time I used lonestar 
(http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/resources/hpc), it did not have Xorg installed.

In the specific case of libjpeg-turbo, an application may want to create 
an image on-the-fly for presentation.  I believe the only application 
not in LSB-Core that is needed to build/use libjpeg-turbo is nasm.

   -- Bruce Dubbs
      linuxfromscratch