* Les Mikesell [12/11/2008 21:26] : > > I thought the point of LSB was to make it possible to provide a working > program independently from any distribution's packaging system quirks. [ I'm having trouble parsing the above sentence. ] The point of the LSB is to enable third-party vendors to make a LSB-compliant binary package and ensure it runs on any LSB-compliant Linux distribution. It won't be integrated as well as a distribution-specific package but it will work. > At least that's the only reason I see to care about it at all. If it > just duplicates things packaging systems already do, why bother? Search me... A while back, I became convinced that the LSB was a conspiracy to get all the people interested in running closed-source software on GNU/Linux distributions involved in a project that a) required vast amounts of time and energy to run and b) was doomed to fail, thus minimizing the harm they could do. I haven't seen anything since then that would make me change my mind. Emmanuel -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
