a crackpot idea i had

[Aaron Grewell]

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> One of the biggest problems I had with Caldera, and one of the biggest
> problems anyone attempting a new distro must face is the problem of
> updates.  linux is not a static product, and all its components are
> subject to continual revision.  Caldera never managed to offer very
> much in the way of RPMs for its particular setup, whereas RedHat has
> always offered RPMs for everything under the sun.  This being the
> case, it would seem to me that the most productive choice would be to
> develop a stable clone of RedHat rather than any of Caldera's
> offerings. (Here come the flames!)  Otherwise, someone has got to do
> the grunt work of providing RPMs for the new distro on a continual
> basis.
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Have any of you produced RPMS based on LSB (http://www.linuxbase.org)?  It 
seems to me that if it was practical, we might get the most mileage out of a 
distro focused on compliance to the current standard.  That way any RPMS 
produced would run on any LSB-compliant distro.  Since I've never produced an 
RPM based on the standard I'm not sure how complicated it would be, so I'm 
interested in whether or not this could reasonably be done.  It would make it 
easy (or easier, anyway) to move between "base" distros if we found that the 
one initially chosen was less than adequate.