Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

Posted Dec 3, 2019 20:10 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc by mjg59
Parent article: Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

> If all a distribution is providing is the infrastructure to run containers, then the number of shared libraries that the distribution needs to ship is pretty small. Why prioritise that case over the far more common case?

And that imho is exactly the attitude that led to the failure of the LSB :-(

It was focussed too much on allowing the distros to tell applications what they provided - which is sort-of okay for Open Source applications, but I tried to push it (unsuccessfully) towards a way where apps (quite possibly closed-source) could tell the distro what they needed. I really ought to try to get WordPerfect 6 running under Wine again, but it would have been nice for WordPerfecrt for Linux 8 to have an lsb "requires" file I could pass to emerge, or rpm, or whatever, and it would provide the pre-requisites for me.

Oh well ...

Cheers,
Wol