Debian dropping the Linux Standard Base

Posted Oct 11, 2015 10:28 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Debian dropping the Linux Standard Base by criswell
Parent article: Debian dropping the Linux Standard Base

Yep. I was heavily involved in the LSB as a private individual way back when. And I felt it was addressing the wrong target.

As a keen WordPerfect user, I wanted some way of specifying "these are the requirements to run commercial program X", and the LSB just seemed to me to be completely missing the point.

If we want to install commercial programs on linux, it would make life so much easier if the LSB just defined a bunch of pseudo-packages the distribution installers all understood, that would make sure the pre-requisites are installed on the system so the commercial installer "just runs". And it looked reasonably easy to me back then - except I just got the feel that the LSB was intent on going in a different direction :-(

Cheers,
Wol