On 16 Mar 2000, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: > Robert, I think you are a little confused about the includsion of X in > LSB. What is required is libX11, libXext, libSM, libICE, libXt, and > libGL (at least at this time). On my system, the .so files for these > libraries (and their dependencies, excluding libc) totals 2,691,068 > bytes. That's just a smidge over 2 and a half MB, nowhere near the 50 > you fear is necessary.
Yes, I see that (now). > We require these basic X libraries because ISV's want to sell > graphical apps. Which means, a system could comply to the LSB, a ISV could sell software to a user running a LSB compliant system, and then the user can't really use the software becuase they only have the X libs. By saying X isn't required, but the libs are, the whole point of making the libraries part of the standard is totally lost.
