Beginning of the End for LSB

Beginning of the End for LSB

Posted Apr 15, 2005 11:06 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Beginning of the End for LSB by Junior_Samples
Parent article: A Componentized Linux roadmap

Have you actually tried to DO anything with the LSB?

It's a bl**dy big task, and you only need to look at the mess that used to exist around rpm to see why. Or the chaos when RH introduced GCC 2.96. Etc etc.

Complexity for the sake of complexity isn't the Linux way. But sometimes it's unavoidable.

BIG HINT: If your problem is complex, and you seek a simple solution, what you end up with will be a damn sight more complex than necessary. Not for nothing did Einstein requote Occam as "make it as simple as possible BUT NO SIMPLER".

Cheers,
Wol

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