Subject: Re: definition of "Required" priority

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 96 13:34 PDT

modconf, syslinux, mbr, and LILO don't really need to be "required".
However, they are used by the installation floppies, and are thus part
of the base system that is installed before you get any package choice.
I would not mind removing their "required" status, as long as the
kernel-image postinst script was made able to cope with their absence.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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From: Manoj Srivastava <[email-masked]>
Date: 16 Jul 1996 02:52:04 -0400

Hi,

	The image postinst script should be able to handle the
 non-existance of LILO. Umm, I have not yet put in a dependence on
 /boot/mbr, but I'll try to make the postinst script cope with the
 absence of mbr as well.  I don't think I depend on  the rest ...

	manoj
>>"Bruce" == Bruce Perens <[email-masked]> writes:

Bruce> modconf, syslinux, mbr, and LILO don't really need to be
Bruce> "required". However, they are used by the installation
Bruce> floppies, and are thus part of the base system that is
Bruce> installed before you get any package choice. I would not mind
Bruce> removing their "required" status, as long as the kernel-image
Bruce> postinst script was made able to cope with their absence.

Bruce> Thanks

Bruce> Bruce -- Re-Elect Clinton/Gore '96

Bruce> Bruce Perens AB6YM [email-masked] http://www.hams.com/

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