> Yes, I can see that. There are things that I myself don't like about > Debian policy... such as FHS. I know that some pretty good BSD folks > have some pretty good reasons to dislike FHS. OTOH, there are some > advantages to the consistency given by the Debian system... there's > lots of hypocritical Linux distributions out there who claim to be FHS > compliant but aren't really. The question will be, does the Debian > project (as a whole) care more about having a great, universal OS, or > does it care more about being compatible with a bunch of 2nd-rate Linux > distros? You'll notice that there's talk of not going along with LSB > because they want us to accept inferior RPM packages... :-)
I don't see why, debian has accepted RPM packages for years. Alien + RPM is all that is required for LSB compat. --- Dynamic Hosting HTTP://www.L8R.net/ "We Provide Static Hostnames for Dynamic IP's"