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[Emmanuel Seyman]

* Les Mikesell [12/11/2008 21:26] :
>
> I thought the point of LSB was to make it possible to provide a working  
> program independently from any distribution's packaging system quirks.  

[ I'm having trouble parsing the above sentence. ]

The point of the LSB is to enable third-party vendors to make a
LSB-compliant binary package and ensure it runs on any LSB-compliant
Linux distribution. It won't be integrated as well as a
distribution-specific package but it will work.

> At least that's the only reason I see to care about it at all.  If it  
> just duplicates things packaging systems already do, why bother?

Search me...
A while back, I became convinced that the LSB was a conspiracy to get
all the people interested in running closed-source software on GNU/Linux
distributions involved in a project that
  a) required vast amounts of time and energy to run and
  b) was doomed to fail,
thus minimizing the harm they could do. I haven't seen anything since
then that would make me change my mind.

Emmanuel