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 And out of date documentation at that. Graham -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org