On 10/21/05, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
The FHS and the GNU-standards are fairly widely accepted standards
in
the OSS, Linux and GNU world.
The context was... packaging standards.... which
i'm pretty sure isn't
covered in the venerable standards you mention.
As others already mentioned, the LSB's
importance is arguable/questionable - Fact is, its importance so far has
been almost negligible.
I'm not going to argue its worth, but it is the only attempt at a
standard that I am aware of that actually covers packaging.. across
distributions... in a way that is relevant to Hearn's comments about
Fedora packaging. The fact that the only standards specification that
I can find..easily...has questionable worth..only further supports my
point that there isn't a workable standard in the package space with
wide acceptance, so it's pointless and most likely counter-productive
for Hearn to imply that there is such a standard out there to measure
Fedora packaging against when trying to compel discussion about
changing aspects of Fedora to make cross-distribution packaging easier
to do.
-jef"more importantly it looks like hot liquid lithium limited Ohmicly
heated low aspect ratio tokamak plasma discharges reach an energy
confinement time nearly 3 times larger than previous emperical scaling
laws would predict... its miller time"spaleta