On 2014-06-10, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> wrote:
 On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@karan.org> wrote:
 On 06/10/2014 06:01 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
 lsb-release is useless, it pipes out the text read from /etc/redhat-release

 but lsb-release will give you relevant content even if you are on a
 distro that has no /etc/redhat-release

 which is kind of the point of having a single tool that can be used
 across distros.

 How is running a program that isn't there any more useful t
 han
reading
 a file that isn't there?

If lsb-release isn't there, then the distro isn't LSB compliant.  Many
third-party packages state LSB compliance as minimum requirements.

--keith