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   8 <sect1 id="pre-standards">
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  10
  11   <title>LFS and Standards</title>
  12
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  14     <title/> -->
  15
  16      <para>The structure of LFS follows Linux standards as closely as
  17      possible.  The primary standards are:</para>
  18
  19     <itemizedlist>
  20       <listitem>
  21         <para><ulink url="http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/">
  22         POSIX.1-2008</ulink>.</para>
  23       </listitem>
  24       <listitem>
  25         <para><ulink url="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html">Filesystem
  26         Hierarchy Standard (FHS)</ulink></para>
  27
  28       </listitem>
  29       <listitem>
  30         <para><ulink url="http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_4.0.0/">Linux
  31         Standard Base (LSB) Core Specification 4.0</ulink></para>
  32
  33         <para>The LSB has five separate standards: Core, C++, Desktop,
  34         Runtime Languages, and Printing. In addition to generic requirements
  35         there are also architecture specific requirements.  LFS attempts to
  36         conform to the architectures discussed in the previous section.</para>
  37
  38         <note><para>Many people do not agree with the requirements of the LSB.
  39         The main purpose of defining it is to ensure that proprietary software
  40         will be able to be installed and run properly on a compliant system.
  41         Since LFS is source based, the user has complete control over what
  42         packages are desired and many choose not to install some packages that
  43         are specified by the LSB.</para></note>
  44
  45       </listitem>
  46     </itemizedlist>
  47
  48     <para>Creating a complete LFS system capable of passing the LSB
  49     certifications tests is possible, but not without many additional packages
  50     that are beyond the scope of LFS.  Most of these additional packages have
  51     installation instructions in BLFS. </para>
  52
  53     <variablelist>
  54       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Packages supplied by LFS needed to
  55           satisfy the LSB Requirements</bridgehead>
  56       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  57       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
  58
  59       <varlistentry>
  60         <term><emphasis>LSB Core:</emphasis></term>
  61         <listitem>
  62           <para>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, File, Findutils, Gawk,
  63                 Grep, Gzip, M4, Man-DB, Ncurses, Procps, Psmisc, Sed,
  64                 Shadow, Tar, Util-linux, Zlib</para>
  65         </listitem>
  66       </varlistentry>
  67
  68       <varlistentry>
  69         <term><emphasis>LSB C++:</emphasis></term>
  70         <listitem>
  71           <para>Gcc</para>
  72         </listitem>
  73       </varlistentry>
  74
  75       <varlistentry>
  76         <term><emphasis>LSB Desktop:</emphasis></term>
  77         <listitem>
  78           <para>None</para>
  79         </listitem>
  80       </varlistentry>
  81
  82       <varlistentry>
  83         <term><emphasis>LSB Runtime Languages:</emphasis></term>
  84         <listitem>
  85           <para>Perl</para>
  86         </listitem>
  87       </varlistentry>
  88
  89       <varlistentry>
  90         <term><emphasis>LSB Printing:</emphasis></term>
  91         <listitem>
  92           <para>None</para>
  93         </listitem>
  94       </varlistentry>
  95
  96       <varlistentry>
  97         <term><emphasis>LSB Multimeda:</emphasis></term>
  98         <listitem>
  99           <para>None</para>
 100         </listitem>
 101       </varlistentry>
 102
 103     </variablelist>
 104
 105     <variablelist>
 106       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Packages supplied by BLFS needed to
 107           satisfy the LSB Requirements</bridgehead>
 108       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
 109       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 110
 111       <varlistentry>
 112         <term><emphasis>LSB Core:</emphasis></term>
 113         <listitem>
 114           <para>Bc, Cpio, Ed, Fcrontab, Initd-tools, PAM,
 115           Sendmail (or Postfix or Exim) </para>
 116         </listitem>
 117       </varlistentry>
 118
 119       <varlistentry>
 120         <term><emphasis>LSB C++:</emphasis></term>
 121         <listitem>
 122           <para>None</para>
 123         </listitem>
 124       </varlistentry>
 125
 126       <varlistentry>
 127         <term><emphasis>LSB Desktop:</emphasis></term>
 128         <listitem>
 129           <para>ATK, Cairo, Desktop-file-utils, Freetype, Fontconfig,
 130                 Glib2, GTK+2, Icon-naming-utils, Libjpeg, Libpng, Libxml2,
 131                 MesaLib, Pango, Qt3, Qt4, Xorg</para>
 132         </listitem>
 133       </varlistentry>
 134
 135       <varlistentry>
 136         <term><emphasis>LSB Runtime Languages:</emphasis></term>
 137         <listitem>
 138           <para>Python</para>
 139         </listitem>
 140       </varlistentry>
 141
 142       <varlistentry>
 143         <term><emphasis>LSB Printing:</emphasis></term>
 144         <listitem>
 145           <para>CUPS</para>
 146         </listitem>
 147       </varlistentry>
 148
 149       <varlistentry>
 150         <term><emphasis>LSB Multimeda:</emphasis></term>
 151         <listitem>
 152           <para>Alsa Libraries, NSPR, NSS, OpenSSL, Java</para>
 153         </listitem>
 154       </varlistentry>
 155
 156     </variablelist>
 157
 158     <variablelist>
 159       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Packages not supplied by LFS or BLFS
 160       needed to satisfy the LSB Requirements</bridgehead>
 161       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
 162       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 163
 164       <varlistentry>
 165         <term><emphasis>LSB Core:</emphasis></term>
 166         <listitem>
 167           <para>At, Batch, Lsb_release
 168           </para>
 169         </listitem>
 170       </varlistentry>
 171
 172       <varlistentry>
 173         <term><emphasis>LSB C++:</emphasis></term>
 174         <listitem>
 175           <para>None</para>
 176         </listitem>
 177       </varlistentry>
 178
 179       <varlistentry>
 180         <term><emphasis>LSB Desktop:</emphasis></term>
 181         <listitem>
 182           <para>None</para>
 183         </listitem>
 184       </varlistentry>
 185
 186       <varlistentry>
 187         <term><emphasis>LSB Runtime Languages:</emphasis></term>
 188         <listitem>
 189           <para>None</para>
 190         </listitem>
 191       </varlistentry>
 192
 193       <varlistentry>
 194         <term><emphasis>LSB Printing:</emphasis></term>
 195         <listitem>
 196           <para>None</para>
 197         </listitem>
 198       </varlistentry>
 199
 200       <varlistentry>
 201         <term><emphasis>LSB Multimeda:</emphasis></term>
 202         <listitem>
 203           <para>Xdg-utils</para>
 204         </listitem>
 205       </varlistentry>
 206
 207     </variablelist>
 208
 209 </sect1>
 210