Linux Standards Base

[Bruce Dubbs]

Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote:
> 
>> The major reason for the existence of the LSB is to support ISVs who
>> want to distribute software for linux. They want to have some base to
>> be able to say "here's a package that will work on your system". If
>> you don't want or need to support that, the LSB is not for you.
> 
> Seems LFS is more the opposite, "give us the source and we make the
> package work for our system". And if so, perhaps we don't even need
> to be LSB compliant.

In general, yes.  However, I want to explain to users how to make their system 
LSB compliant and also explain why they might (or might not) want to do so.

   -- Bruce