From c815d59f80ebb5cf377e7e87e44c340d9b103132 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Landley
POSIX allowed its standards process to be compromised by leaving things out, thus allowing IBM mainframes and Windows NT to drive a truck through the holes and declare themselves compilant. But it means what -they DID standardize tends to be respected.
+they DID standardize tends to be respected (if sometimes obsolete).The Linux Standard Base's failure mode is different, they respond to pressure by including special-case crap, such as allowing Red Hat to shoehorn -RPM on the standard even though all sorts of distros (Debian, Slackware, Arch, +RPM into the standard even though all sorts of distros (Debian, Slackware, Arch, Gentoo) don't use it and probably never will. This means anything in the LSB is at best a suggestion: arbitrary portions of this standard are widely ignored.
-The LSB does specify a list of command line
+ The community perception seems to be that the Linux Standard Base is
+the best standard money can buy, I.E. the Linux Foundation is supported by
+financial donations form large companies and the LSB represents the interests
+of those donors more than technical merit. Debian officially
+washed its hands of LSB when 5.0
+came out in 2015, and no longer even pretends to support it (which may affect
+Debian derivatives like Ubuntu and Knoppix). Toybox hasn't moved to 5.0 for
+similar reasons. That said, Posix by itself isn't enough, and this is the next most
+comprehensive standards effort for Linux so far. The LSB specifies a list of command line
utilities:
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cgit v1.2.3