congratulations, you have reinvented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base, which is dead. it's no

congratulations, you have reinvented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base, which is dead. it's not a terrible idea, but had a number of fundamental problems. first, it was a massive undertaking primarily driven from the "enterprise" side with minimal support in the community. the former isn't necessarily an issue, but the latter was a death sentence for a supposedly comprehensive standard. furthermore, the goal of LSB is fundamentally at odds with the extensible and decentralized nature of Linux; full adoption would destroy most of the value of Linux as a customizable system. funnily enough, though, Red Hat failed with LSB, but systemd is, for better or worse, accomplishing much of the same goals, causing many of the same issues of poor extensibility and customizability.