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[Les Mikesell]

Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> * 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.

Does the LSB demand that program be encapsulated in 
distribution,version-specific packages before it can work? If it does, I 
don't see much advantage over having to build in every 
distribution,version environment in the first place.  And if not, then 
how is it supposed to know about the dependencies you mentioned.

>> 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.

I have to agree that so far the LSB appears to be aimlessly moving 
things around - but I don't see why that would have to be the case if 
someone actually wanted programs to run.

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    Les Mikesell
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