| OE-Core aims to be able to provide basic LSB compatible images. There |
| are some challenges for OE as LSB isn't always 100% relevant to its |
| target embedded and IoT audiences. |
| |
| One challenge is that the LSB spec is no longer being actively |
| developed [https://github.com/LinuxStandardBase/lsb] and has |
| components which are end of life or significantly dated. OE |
| therefore provides compatibility with the following caveats: |
| |
| * Qt4 is provided by the separate meta-qt4 layer. Its noted that Qt4 |
| is end of life and this isn't something the core project regularly |
| tests any longer. Users are recommended to group together to support |
| maintenance of that layer. [http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-qt4/] |
| |
| * GTK+ 2 is provided by meta-oe. It is noted that GTK+ 2 is end of life |
| and use of GTK+ 2 isn't recommended. |
| |
| * mailx has been dropped since its no longer being developed upstream |
| and there are better, more modern replacements such as s-nail |
| (http://sdaoden.eu/code.html) or mailutils (http://mailutils.org/). |
| |
| * A few perl modules that were required by LSB 4.x aren't provided: |
| libclass-isa, libenv, libdumpvalue, libfile-checktree, |
| libi18n-collate, libpod-plainer. |
| |
| * libpng 1.2 isn't provided; oe-core includes the latest release of libpng |
| instead. |
| |
| * pax (POSIX standard archive) tool is not provided. |