Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian
Stephane Bortzmeyer schrieb:
> below. RPM is the defacto standard on Linux [sic] and supported either
> directly, or indirectly by the widest number of distributions.
The statement is perfectly true, Debian supports RPM with aliens
help.
> The intent is to in the future replace this format with a new
> format currently being developed.
I'd like it much more if there was a simple "portable package
format" (like GNU .tar.gz (ie with autoconf or workalike);) and
distributions can build on that if they feel they need to.
In short: most is there.
> So, LSB is not a specification for Linux-based operating systems but for the
> subset of them which uses the RPM format.
What part of the quote leads you to this conclusion?
ciao, 2ri
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