On 10 iunie 2014 21:39:15 EEST, Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS-devel mailing list >CentOS-devel at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel quite often i do not install the lsb-release package. And I use CentOS almost exclusively for many years. On many systems, for all the organizations I work for -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20140610/59746ddd/attachment-0007.html>