Fedora opens up to bundling

Posted Oct 18, 2015 8:56 UTC (Sun) by krake (guest, #55996)
In reply to: Fedora opens up to bundling by Cyberax
Parent article: Fedora opens up to bundling

Right now the situation is closer to what you describe, i.e. specifying without input from developers.

Instead of providing something that developers would want to develop against, they choose to specify something that distributors are automatically in compliance with.

Of course that is great for marketing, but rather useless for engineering.

Fedora opens up to bundling

Posted Oct 18, 2015 9:13 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Committees are notoriously bad at listening to developers. Most of the successful standards of the last years simply standardized the existing best practices. C++ is a good example of this.

LSB should have realized that the GUI toolkits in Linux can't be standardized, except at the lowest level (X-server or Wayland). And as for the startup system and configuration, LSB tried to be as flexible as possible to accommodate all distributions, so it ended up less than useful for all of them.