Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
The LSB (Linux Standards Base) and the FreeDesktop.org standards aretrying to make all distros more compliant with a set of standards -making the life of any ISV and lone software developer MUCH easier.LSB and FreeDesktop.org are supported by most mainstream distros (foryears already). If your distro doesn't, use something better, or emailthe maintainers of that distro and demand better standardization.
An older servo distro we've got around here has neither lsb_release nor the xdg utilities, I've not checked either of the Solaris systems. Looking at machines in my workroom, all of the Debians currently running have both, except for one Lenny which doesn't have lsb_release- other Lennies have it.
So while the utilities are undoubtedly useful and underused, it's clearly important to have some sort of fallback if they turn out not to be available.
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