a crackpot idea i had

David A. Bandel david
Mon May 17 11:31:14 PDT 2004


On Tue, 14 May 2002 09:45:13 -0700
begin  Aaron Grewell <agrewell at bothell.washington.edu> spewed forth:

[snip]

> 
> 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._______________________________________________

I see several problems here, most stemming from glibc, the kernel, and
other library versions.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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