Re: The LSB and packages
On Tue 21 Jul 1998, Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net> wrote:
> I had a long talk with Bruce over dinner while at Linux Expo. He
> emphatically stated that the LSB would NOT push one packager over
> another. Its goal was to standardize libs and utils. Not deb over rpm
> or slp (stampede's format). Besides, there is not even a single rpm.
> SuSE and I believe Caldera each have modified rpm to suit their needs.
>
> Bruce may not be fending for Debian, however he is a big proponent of
> choice. Let's see how this goes.
That's not exactly true. It seems that most of the people on the LSB believe
that there should be one standard LSB format for ISVs, to install their
software. For the entire linux world they feel choice is good, but they say
that ISVs don't want choice, they want a standard.
Shaya
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