[Lsb-messages] /var/www/bzr/lsb/devel/lsbspec r4045: Add note about lsb pkg to Common book.
Jeff Licquia
licquia at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Oct 10 16:34:56 UTC 2014
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revno: 4045
committer: Jeff Licquia <licquia at linuxfoundation.org>
branch nick: lsbspec
timestamp: Fri 2014-10-10 12:34:56 -0400
message:
Add note about lsb pkg to Common book.
modified:
Common/generic/intro.m4
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=== modified file 'Common/generic/intro.m4'
--- a/Common/generic/intro.m4 2014-10-07 18:37:33 +0000
+++ b/Common/generic/intro.m4 2014-10-10 16:34:56 +0000
@@ -192,6 +192,22 @@
facility, or implementation-defined extension not defined in
this specification in order to be installed or to execute successfully.
</para>
+<para>
+Applications distributed using the packaging specification described
+in the generic LSB Core specification (&ISOSTD-1;) may, in addition to
+other package dependencies described in this specification, declare a
+dependency on "lsb" with a version of 5.0.
+<note>
+<title>Implementation Note</title>
+<para>
+Application dependencies should generally be as limited as possible.
+For example, if an application only depends on items from the core
+specification, a dependency on "lsb-core" may be more appropriate than
+a dependency on "lsb", which could cause an implementation to install
+a number of other modules that aren't needed.
+</para>
+</note>
+</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
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