Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
Date:	Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:31:08
Message-Id:	`20051018202647.5591b24f@snowdrop.home`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version by Scott Stoddard

1	On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:25:07 -0400 Scott Stoddard
2	<scott@×××××××××××.ca> wrote:
3	\| An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro,
4	\| version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can
5	\| only help maintainers of heterogenous networks to do their jobs with
6	\| less frustration.
7
8	Sure. Put together a proposal that doesn't involve LSB, persuade the
9	other big name distros that it's a good idea and maybe we'll consider
10	it.
11
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13	Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
14	Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
15	Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm