Alexander Skwar wrote: > So sprach �Pixel� am 2002-01-30 um 10:56:20 +0100 : > >>remove package "basesystem" and this limitation will go away... >> > > Is lilo needed at all if I use grub? If not, then both grub and lilo > should provide "bootloader" and basesystem should require bootloader and > not lilo and/or grub. > > Alexander Skwar >
Ummm, and economics rears its ugly head.... You see, if you do a --whatprovides query, you should get a unique answer in mdk. Otherwise it is a nightmare when a tarball changes--have to repackage all of them that provide it, and the distro gets _really_ bloated in terms of install CDs. In fact I wrote a tarball sweeper to check that tar.bz2's are not duplicated with a few exceptions in the distro. (Like ALSA in several kernels). Civileme
