| Brad Bishop | d7bf8c1 | 2018-02-25 22:55:05 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | OE-Core aims to be able to provide basic LSB compatible images. There |
| 2 | are some challenges for OE as LSB isn't always 100% relevant to its |
| 3 | target embedded and IoT audiences. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | One challenge is that the LSB spec is no longer being actively |
| 6 | developed [https://github.com/LinuxStandardBase/lsb] and has |
| 7 | components which are end of life or significantly dated. OE |
| 8 | therefore provides compatibility with the following caveats: |
| 9 | |
| 10 | * Qt4 is provided by the separate meta-qt4 layer. Its noted that Qt4 |
| 11 | is end of life and this isn't something the core project regularly |
| 12 | tests any longer. Users are recommended to group together to support |
| 13 | maintenance of that layer. [http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-qt4/] |
| 14 | |
| 15 | * mailx has been dropped since its no longer being developed upstream |
| 16 | and there are better, more modern replacements such as s-nail |
| 17 | (http://sdaoden.eu/code.html) or mailutils (http://mailutils.org/). |
| 18 | |
| 19 | * A few perl modules that were required by LSB 4.x aren't provided: |
| 20 | libclass-isa, libenv, libdumpvalue, libfile-checktree, |
| 21 | libi18n-collate, libpod-plainer. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | * libpng 1.2 isn't provided; oe-core includes the latest release of libpng |
| 24 | instead. |
| 25 | |