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About 2009 or 2010 I recall nearly every major distro saying they were going to ignore it, yes. It primarily existed so that Linux could mimic System V and/or P
by da_chicken 3y ago
About 2009 or 2010 I recall nearly every major distro saying they were going to ignore it, yes. It primarily existed so that Linux could mimic System V and/or POSIX, and that stopped being relevant as soon as software written for Unix migrated into software written for Linux.
- wichert 3y agoIt primarily existed to standardise paths between different Linux distributions. This, along with the LSB, was intended to make it possible to ship software that would work on all distributions.
- SAI_Peregrinus 3y agoIt did a pretty poor job of it though, since it made no attempt to separate distro software from third-party software (unless you count "shove everything 3rd-party in /opt and bundle all dependencies").