> > LSB's ... mission ... is creation of _Barely Enough_ > > if that is the position of the LSB...
Perhaps someone active in the LSB will confirm this. > > expansion of this mission right now would be highly inappropriate. > > I disagree on the point of not being allowed to change the [mission] > ... because it has been worked on for years. ... not a good argument. Agreed, that would be a stupid argument. But that was not my argument. First, I was talking about a drastic expansion of the mission (adding stuff that the LSB think would be good, rather than stuff that is necessary, as dictated solely by either pure technical issues, or non-controversial demands by distros and ISVs), not a slight change. Second, I was talking about debate _right now_. Let them get LSB 1 settled, then consider where the LSB goes from there. The LSB should be trying to get as much of the distro and ISV community to adopt LSB 1.0 as possible, and to do so as happily as possible. Every little extra mandated piece might cost some adoption and/or happiness. (Consider the gal with her own net based radio broadcasting linux distro; is she going to make her distro LSB compliant? Is she going to be happy having to generate a load of dummy man pages just so she can get her distro compliant? Perhaps she doesn't care to do this, or it doesn't matter if she tries and fails. Perhaps only bigger distros will care or try. But where is the cutoff point? Better to be as inclusive as is reasonably possible, then go from there.)
