Re: [gentoo-dev] Linux Standard Base

[Jerry A!]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:10:36AM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
: On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:49:22AM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
: 
: > The distributions are supposed to be different - that's why they exist. 
: > Grassroots anti-LSB movement anyone?.. :-)
: 
: Yep, the LSB sucks.  It's basically a RedHat-compatibility manual.  I'm not
: going to defend the LSB, but it does make sense to be as RedHat compatible as
: possible without making any compromises in the design of Gentoo Linux.
: 
: It would be fun to start an anti-LSB movement, though =)

I think that it won't take much work for us to become RPM-capable (I'm
pretty sure that Achim will say we already are and all we need is a C++
stub to portage to create out /var/db structure as well as RPM's
database).

Regardless, I think we should put a carefully worded statement on the
website stating why we're doing in regards to LSB, but also how it hurts
Linux as a whole, since it doesn't create a Linux standard, but rather a
Redhat standard.

        --Jerry

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