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authorDavid Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com>2022-10-15 15:05:17 -0500
committerDavid Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com>2022-10-15 15:05:17 -0500
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Clarfied a few points and corrected English idiom.
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Standard Base (LSB) Version 5.0 (2015)</ulink></para>
<para>The LSB has four separate standards: Core, Desktop,
- Runtime Languages, and Imaging. In addition to generic requirements
- there are also architecture specific requirements. There are also two
- areas for trial use: Gtk3 and Graphics. LFS attempts to conform to the
+ Runtime Languages, and Imaging. There are generic requirements,
+ and also architecture specific requirements. There are also two
+ trial standards: Gtk3 and Graphics. LFS attempts to conform to the
+ LASB standards for the IA32 / IA64 (Intel) and AMD64 (AMD)
architectures discussed in the previous section.</para>
- <note><para>Many people do not agree with the requirements of the LSB.
- The main purpose of defining it is to ensure that proprietary software
- will be able to be installed and run properly on a compliant system.
+ <note><para>Many people do not agree with these requirements.
+ The main purpose of the LSB is to ensure that proprietary software
+ can be installed and run on a compliant system.
Since LFS is source based, the user has complete control over what
- packages are desired and many choose not to install some packages that
+ packages are desired; you may choose not to install some packages that
are specified by the LSB.</para></note>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>Creating a complete LFS system capable of passing the LSB
- certifications tests is possible, but not without many additional packages
- that are beyond the scope of LFS. These additional packages have
- installation instructions in BLFS. </para>
+ <para>While it is possible to create a complete system that will pass the LSB
+ certification tests "from scratch", this can't be done without many additional packages
+ that are beyond the scope of the LFS book. Installation instructions for these
+ additional packages can be found in BLFS. </para>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Packages supplied by LFS needed to