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On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:15:26PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
> > "The Free Standards Group, which includes IBM, Red Hat, TurboLinux and
> > Oracle, also fashioned the specification to simplify development for
> > independent software vendors and corporations. The group has made Version 1.0
> > of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) available." (And I wondered who could be so
> > stupid as to enforce use of RPMs).
>
> It sounds like someone should start the GLSG -- the Grassroots Linux Standards
> Group.
why? linux standards are a joke. Hell. Standards of all forms are a joke.
Go look into the details of the configure script that cames with almost
every source tarball you download. If **ANY** of the standards were standard,
we wouldn't need a script to figure out how the system works.
Look at most any binary distribution that has existed previously, for linux or
any/all unixes. Nearly all of them are completely self contained. And for a
user to use them, you just set and environment variable or two, and run.
All that Standards are used for is free promotion of the company that wins.
Rarely are standards designed, the committees almost always take an existing
solution, and go "Hey look! it works! it must be a standard!"
(someone is still a little sore from implementing posix and bsd file locking
inside of gfs....)
--
Michael Tilstra tadpol@tadpol.org
You're just jealous because the little voices talk to me!