Raul Miller wrote:
>
> [Sorry to bring up old material, but...]
>
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 06:54:22PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Your application can create its own dependencies (an application may
> > obviously want to contain more than one package), but think about
> > it for a second -- if you have dependencies outside of LSB and your
> > own application, it obviously can't be LSB compliant, since you're
> > depending on something that isn't in LSB!
>
> I want to make sure I understand this: is an application a package,
> or can an application be a set of packages?
>
> Which is to say: if an application is a set of packages, some of which
> depend on other packages from within the application, is that application
> LSB compliant?
>
I would certainly say so.
> [Aside: if there's no global name space out of which package names are
> allocated then there will be completely different packages which have the
> same name. That might be significant if there's ever to be an LSB 2.0,
> and might also be significant for people writing documentation, etc.]
As I've said, I have volunteered to coordinate a global namespace via
LANANA.
-hpa
