On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Broekman, Maarten <Maarten.Broekman@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Is the "pain point" the libraries that it requires (in particular, > libX11, etc)? Just wondering because the commands that are required > look like what you would expect on any reasonable system. No, lsb just pulls in various packages that many people don't want on servers. The "pain point" I mentioned was the inconsistent treatment of /etc/redhat-release which causes maintenance work for those of us who do need to parse it in scripts over time. We can expect distinct cases for each major release of RHEL but there have also been occasions where this file has changed in unpredictable ways across minor update levels as well. John -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
