On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:39:00PM -0700, Collins wrote: > This is all fine and dandy, but you need to direct this to LSB, and rational > logic doesn't seem to go very far with that group.
You are being very unfair. As much as they'd like to, the LSB *can not* simply decide on the most rational system. They have to decide on the least *obtrusive* system which is still complete enough to be meaningful. We need to make it as easy as possible for most distros to become compliant while at the same time making compliance useful for something. It's not an easy balance, and it is a balance that is almost guaranteed to *not* produce the best system possible. The problem is that designing the best system possible would require such an effort for distributions that it would impede the acceptance of Linux. It's best to start with the simplest thing, and then slowly move to make it more complete and if possible, closer to the ideal. This is the kind of thing that is discussed in the LSB-Future mailing list. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
