Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Steve Langasek] > >>The goal of the LSB is to provide a standard that ISVs can write to >>-- *not* to make life easier for admins moving from distro to >>distro. > > > Hm, that is sad. Because some of us with a large number of machines, > do need to handle cross-distribution consistency. Not to move from > distro to distro, but because a few hundred machines rune each of the > distros. :) > > I hope someone try to make life easier for admins needing to > administrate a lot of machines with different distros. I think both latitudes can be largely satisfied if LANANA can be persuaded (if they do not already do so) to solicit approval from distributors before issuing new approvals. That way, we don't have to try to register every init.d script under the sun, and ISVs still don't get to register names that are likely to cause pain in the future. Alternatively, perhaps LANANA should have a list of names that have been vetoed that we can add to in a light-weight manner, and have a script that ensures that packages only get into the archive if their init.d scripts are thus registered, or otherwise attempts an automated registration. Cheers, Phil.
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