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. -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77