Yup in the grand scheme of things its tiny...and it will fail for one reason
and one reason only......Egos.....for example: The people at red hat have
already said no way that they would use apt-get and the people at debian say
rpm is evil (paraphrasing of course)....what is gonna make the standard and
what will that standard be?...if there ever is a standard it will work this
way: 1. Placement of libs 2. standard for "other" system files. Thats
all that might ever be agreed up on and *I* feel it wont even make it that
far because of some of the egos involved. In case you havent noticed there
are some HUGE egos in the linux community and those people hate it when they
have to concede even little points. Its nothing wrong with the community
its just a fact of life you see EVERYWHERE.
Todd
PS: If there ever is a standard look for it to be based heavily on red hat
with things like an apt-get/rpm hybrid.
> On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:48:25AM -0400, Todd wrote:
>
> > There is a tiny
> > group of people pushing for standards to define "compatible" linux
> > distros....Will it ever happen? Probably not.
>
> <snip>
>
> > Will the standards that the tiny group is
> > pushing for ever make it? Nope....
>
> So you're saying that the LSB is doomed to failure? All the major
> distros (besides Slackware) have people involved, and the executive
> levels at these companies see this effort as a good thing for the
> industry as a whole. It doesn't in any way prevent adding value, but it
> makes it easier for third parties to work with Linux. And that "tiny"
> group of people you're talking about includes all the major distros.
>
> Paul
>
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