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Basic QuestionBasic QuestionPosted Sep 14, 2004 4:22 UTC (Tue) by piman (subscriber, #8957)In reply to: Basic Question by darthmdh Parent article: Linux standard gains big-name backers (News.com)
"We" meaning who, you?
Debian has been involved with the LSB since its start, and is fine with the "requirement" to support RPMs; it doesn't say the distribution has to do everything using them, just that they be installable. Which they are on every GNU/Linux-based OS I can think of, and several others (like Solaris). In fact, Red Hat no longer uses the LSB-specified version of RPM natively (they've moved on to RPM 4); they are in the same situation as Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo, Slackware, or any other distribution.
The userspace ABI is convenient, but really the best thing for free software developers (for whom ABI changes are not an intractable problem) is the filesystem-related standards, I think. It definitely simplifies a lot of installation procedures and questions about where the admin knows files will go.
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