On 10/10/2014 12:55 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:> I've noticed that some systems don't have redhat-lsb or even
> redhat-lsb-core installed and as a side effect, the ocsinventory agent
> reports them as 'linux' instead of Centos with the release version.
> Also, where it is installed and ocsinventory does pick up the name, it
> doesn't include Centos (pre-7.x) in the 'all Linux' grouping
because
> the name is just CentOS and unlike 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or
'SUSE
> Linux Enterprise Server' which include Linux in the name.
>
> Anyway, a few questions:
>
> Is there some reason to omit redhat-lsb-core from any of the install
groups?
The GIANT list of dependencies.
> Why is there such a big list of dependencies? (glibc-devel,
> gdbm-devel, perl-CGI, etc., seem odd as 'standard requirements').
LSB itself is a list of requirements. It mandates specific binaries
which are spread over a variety of packages.
> Even more so for the full redhat-lsb package? Why are things like
> qt and ghostscript pulled in by dependencies?
Because the LSB standards gods demand tribute and sacrifice.
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