On 5 March 2013 10:54, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately this has been merged before I had a chance to reply. FYI I put
> the code in here to read the files directly on purpose, because most distros
> bundle up the lsb_release tool with all of the LSB dependencies, so if you
> want to set up a headless server without some of the LSB dependencies (which
> include X11) you won't have the lsb_release tool and NATIVELSBSTRING is
> "Unknown". Yes, I know we have this problem with NATIVELSBSTRING already.

Score one for Debian, which ships lsb_release in a dedicated package
for this exact reason. :)

Ross

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