> commercial Unixes. In many ways, the Linux distribution front is an
> example of "co-opetition" at its best. But it's annoying when you find a
> package for a different Linux distribution which resists being repackaged
> for your distribution (or vice versa), generally because different
> distributions have different versions of the base software (kernel and/or
> libc).
The LSB goal is not really any further than
o libc symbols are this
o ELF format is this
o libc structures are these
o Binary calling format
o Feed a script to this program to add it to init scripts
o Basic X11 libraries
at the moment. (C++ stuff is not in the current spec because the C++ standard
people g++ 3.0 may not be quite back compatible on ABI)
It is also contrary to various reports relevant to free software as well as
proprietary stuff. Ask the poor guy who packaged the Helix gnome releases
for about 10 linux distributions if he'd like one standard...
Alan
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