Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:29:33
Message-Id: 200510181824.33698.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version by Frank.Pikelner@blue-dot.ca
1 On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:36, Frank.Pikelner@××××××××.ca wrote:
2 > If you "cat /etc/gentoo-release" it give back " Gentoo Base System
3 > version 1.4.16".
4 >
5 > Though being LSB compliant may not make sense for Gentoo as a whole,
6 > there is sense in having an ability to remotely identify the system as a
7 > Gentoo distribution. If the distribution could support "lsb_release -ir"
8 > output, it would definitely be helpful.
9 >
10
11 since gentoo is NOT LSB compliant (and the chances are fat, that it will never
12 be), it would be just wrong, to give back a lsb-release version, is it not?
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