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The Linux Foundation Announces Linux Standard Base 3.2
The Linux Foundation Announces Linux Standard Base 3.2
Posted Feb 19, 2008 22:35 UTC (Tue) by vmole (subscriber, #111)In reply to: The Linux Foundation Announces Linux Standard Base 3.2 by sbergman27
Parent article: The Linux Foundation Announces Linux Standard Base 3.2
It also lets distributions not be needlessly incompatible and avoid a lot of tedious decisions: If it's defined in the LSB, and doesn't conflict with existing practice, just do it that way and get on to more interesting things.
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The Linux Foundation Announces Linux Standard Base 3.2
Posted Feb 20, 2008 7:46 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]
Do you know any example when a major distro would not follow that rule? I don't mean use of newer versions of software (rpm 4.x) or sticking with the choices predating LSB (dpkg), but rather new choices made in violation of the spirit of LSB (e.g. different filesystem layout).
The Linux Foundation Announces Linux Standard Base 3.2
Posted Feb 20, 2008 8:05 UTC (Wed) by dune73 (subscriber, #17225) [Link]
Every now and then there is a new distribution that tries a different filetree. They are quickly forgotten. So I can't mention a name, but search the lwn archives.