Debian dropping the Linux Standard Base

Thoughts?

Original announcement: https://lwn.net/Articles/658809/

Debian thread: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=128161

I won't be sorry to see it go. I came across this "standard" recently when I found myself googling an odd warning message that I had found on my Debian system -- something like "No LSB modules found". Apparently the way to clear it was to install the lsb-core package. But when I saw the apparently endless stream of dependencies that came with that package, I thought to myself, "No way am I having this on my system! Who needs all this bumf?"

And what kind of universal Linux standard is it anyway that requires an ability to install rpm packages?

Originally Posted by hazel I won't be sorry to see it go. I came across this "standard" recently when I found myself googling an odd warning message that I had found on my Debian system -- something like "No LSB modules found". Apparently the way to clear it was to install the lsb-core package. But when I saw the apparently endless stream of dependencies that came with that package, I thought to myself, "No way am I having this on my system! Who needs all this bumf?" And what kind of universal Linux standard is it anyway that requires an ability to install rpm packages?

Good call.