On Sunday 27 May 2001 03:28 pm, you wrote:
> 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
i would disagree, egos or not. if these people want to continue
with success in linux they will work to make linux compatible
across the board. it makes sense. linux can go only so far with
30 distros and all of them different. it will work out. i believe the
group is about to release 1.0 standars soon. i just with they
would hurry up and do it. the sooner the better.
>
> 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.
it needs to happen. we all need to quit insisting that his way or her
way is the way and get together and make it our way.
> >
> > <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
its about to happen sooner than later.
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