On 06/17/2011 03:47 PM, Graham Anderson wrote:
On Friday 17 Jun 2011 19:42:31 Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 17 June 2011 19:32:09 Kay Sievers wrote:
Remember, FHS documents behavior, does not set rules to follow.
Where did you hear this? The FHS - and the LSB in general - was invented to give us a set of standards that third-party developers to rely on to always work, so they didn't have to live in constant fear of people upending everything to break their software.
This was once considered important in linux. I personally believe it was what made us number 1 on server systems.
The next move of the LSB and FHS was meant to be a standardisation of the desktop, so we could move ahead there and eventually become number 1 there as well. I think this was partly the idea of freedesktop.org and the work around standards such as XDG
As a wise penguin once said "I see standards bodies as documentation and really nothing more". And this is prbably close to the reality of the matter. It can be argued that the LSB is lagging behind the pace of development and change, especially on the desktop, and that would pretty much make it documentation in my eyes. And out of date documentation at that.
The LSB lags behind on purpose in an effort to resemble currently released enterprise distribution. The LSB is setup to be a trailing standard, while the FHS is not. For LSB 5.0 the LSB will be a bit more aggressive, however, it will never be targeted at the community distributions as community distributions clearly move too fast. BTW, community distros also move too fast for most ISV and Enterprises, which is the target of the LSB. Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rschweikert@novell.com rschweikert@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org