On 2014-06-10, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at 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 than 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 -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us