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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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  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
  26         url="http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/fhs.shtml">
  27         Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) Version 3.0</ulink></para>
  28
  29       </listitem>
  30       <listitem>
  31         <para><ulink url="http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/lsb.shtml">Linux
  32         Standard Base (LSB) Version 5.0</ulink></para>
  33
  34         <para>The LSB has four separate standards: Core, Desktop,
  35         Runtime Languages, and Imaging. In addition to generic requirements
  36         there are also architecture specific requirements.  There are also two
  37         areas for trial use: Gtk3 and Graphics.  LFS attempts to conform to the
  38         architectures discussed in the previous section.</para>
  39
  40         <note><para>Many people do not agree with the requirements of the LSB.
  41         The main purpose of defining it is to ensure that proprietary software
  42         will be able to be installed and run properly on a compliant system.
  43         Since LFS is source based, the user has complete control over what
  44         packages are desired and many choose not to install some packages that
  45         are specified by the LSB.</para></note>
  46
  47       </listitem>
  48     </itemizedlist>
  49
  50     <para>Creating a complete LFS system capable of passing the LSB
  51     certifications tests is possible, but not without many additional packages
  52     that are beyond the scope of LFS.  These additional packages have
  53     installation instructions in BLFS. </para>
  54
  55     <variablelist>
  56       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Packages supplied by LFS needed to
  57           satisfy the LSB Requirements</bridgehead>
  58       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  59       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
  60
  61       <varlistentry>
  62         <term><emphasis>LSB Core:</emphasis></term>
  63         <listitem>
  64           <para>Bash, Bc, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, File, Findutils, Gawk,
  65                 Grep, GTK+2, Gzip, M4, Man-DB, Ncurses, Procps, Psmisc, Sed,
  66                 Shadow, Tar, Util-linux, Zlib</para>
  67         </listitem>
  68       </varlistentry>
  69
  70       <varlistentry>
  71         <term><emphasis>LSB Desktop:</emphasis></term>
  72         <listitem>
  73           <para>None</para>
  74         </listitem>
  75       </varlistentry>
  76
  77       <varlistentry>
  78         <term><emphasis>LSB Runtime Languages:</emphasis></term>
  79         <listitem>
  80           <para>Perl</para>
  81         </listitem>
  82       </varlistentry>
  83
  84       <varlistentry>
  85         <term><emphasis>LSB Imaging:</emphasis></term>
  86         <listitem>
  87           <para>None</para>
  88         </listitem>
  89       </varlistentry>
  90
  91       <varlistentry>
  92         <term><emphasis>LSB Gtk3 and LSB Graphics (Trial Use):</emphasis></term>
  93         <listitem>
  94           <para>None</para>
  95         </listitem>
  96       </varlistentry>
  97
  98     </variablelist>
  99
 100     <variablelist>
 101       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Packages supplied by BLFS needed to
 102           satisfy the LSB Requirements</bridgehead>
 103       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
 104       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 105
 106       <varlistentry>
 107         <term><emphasis>LSB Core:</emphasis></term>
 108         <listitem>
 109           <para>At, Batch (a part of At), Cpio, Ed, Fcrontab, Initd-tools,
 110           Lsb_release, NSPR, NSS, PAM, Pax, Sendmail (or Postfix or Exim), time
 111           </para>
 112         </listitem>
 113       </varlistentry>
 114
 115       <varlistentry>
 116         <term><emphasis>LSB Desktop:</emphasis></term>
 117         <listitem>
 118           <para>Alsa, ATK, Cairo, Desktop-file-utils, Freetype, Fontconfig,
 119           Gdk-pixbuf, Glib2, Icon-naming-utils, Libjpeg-turbo, Libpng, Libtiff,
 120           Libxml2, MesaLib, Pango, Qt4, Xdg-utils, Xorg</para>
 121         </listitem>
 122       </varlistentry>
 123
 124       <varlistentry>
 125         <term><emphasis>LSB Runtime Languages:</emphasis></term>
 126         <listitem>
 127           <para>Python, Libxml2, Libxslt </para>
 128         </listitem>
 129       </varlistentry>
 130
 131       <varlistentry>
 132         <term><emphasis>LSB Imaging:</emphasis></term>
 133         <listitem>
 134           <para>CUPS, Cups-filters, Ghostscript, SANE</para>
 135         </listitem>
 136       </varlistentry>
 137
 138       <varlistentry>
 139         <term><emphasis>LSB Gtk3 and LSB Graphics (Trial Use):</emphasis></term>
 140         <listitem>
 141           <para>GTK+3</para>
 142         </listitem>
 143       </varlistentry>
 144
 145     </variablelist>
 146
 147     <variablelist>
 148       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Packages not supplied by LFS or BLFS
 149       needed to satisfy the LSB Requirements</bridgehead>
 150       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
 151       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 152
 153       <varlistentry>
 154         <term><emphasis>LSB Core:</emphasis></term>
 155         <listitem>
 156           <para>None</para>
 157         </listitem>
 158       </varlistentry>
 159
 160       <varlistentry>
 161         <term><emphasis>LSB Desktop:</emphasis></term>
 162         <listitem>
 163           <para>None</para>
 164         </listitem>
 165       </varlistentry>
 166
 167       <varlistentry>
 168         <term><emphasis>LSB Runtime Languages:</emphasis></term>
 169         <listitem>
 170           <para>None</para>
 171         </listitem>
 172       </varlistentry>
 173
 174       <varlistentry>
 175         <term><emphasis>LSB Imaging:</emphasis></term>
 176         <listitem>
 177           <para>None</para>
 178         </listitem>
 179       </varlistentry>
 180
 181       <varlistentry>
 182         <term><emphasis>LSB Gtk3 and LSB Graphics (Trial Use):</emphasis></term>
 183         <listitem>
 184           <para>None</para>
 185         </listitem>
 186       </varlistentry>
 187
 188     </variablelist>
 189
 190 </sect1>
 191