RE: distro name

["Wichmann, Mats D" <mats d wichmann intel com>]

>It would have been better if RPM has a standardized way to supply a 
>package with its distribution information (from its own SPEC files).
>So that the dist definition is implied based on your distribution.
>
>JBJ wants to have consensus before implementing a scheme like 
>that, but I cannot give him consensus and I wonder who could and
>what is needed for that. I think LSB should make something like
>this mandatory.

Maybe I'm missing something in the above proposal, but the
LSB is trying to reduce the need to do distro-specific builds,
and the suggestion seems to go in the other direction.