<snip> > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stainforth, Matthew (SD/DS) > <Matthew.Stainforth@xxxxxx> wrote: >>> 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. <snip> Y'know, when all you want is lsb_release, and I know I'd noticed it when I installed it on some of our servers, but this finally penetrated, so I just did rpm -qi -R redhat-lsb. Can *ANYONE* explain to me why it needs libX11? I mean, it's a bloody command line shell script that prints to STDOUT! mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list