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RE: lsb-apache rpms



I seem to be missing some of the context here, but isn't the
lsb-rpm package simply standard rpm but using the older
data format?  What /is/ the "lsb format"?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wichert Akkerman [mailto:wichert@wiggy.net]
> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 9:55 AM
> To: lsb-discuss@lists.linuxbase.org
> Subject: Re: lsb-apache rpms
> 
> 
> Previously Dan Kegel wrote:
> > Although dpkg could be enhanced to handle lsb packages, why 
> not just do
> >    apt-get install rpm
> > ?
> 
> Because that is just as silly, rpm is not the same as format as lsb
> and judging by comments from the rpm maintainers they would not mind
> dropping support for the lsb format (I can't really blame them, the
> format isn't all that great).
> 



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