Subject: Bug#3772: lilo should not depend on MBR

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 96 18:16 PDT

LILO's postinst script installs MBR. If you don't have MBR installed, it's
probably best to simply not run the postinst. Since MBR is so small, I find
it easier for it to be required.

	Bruce
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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 96 13:00 BST

Bruce Perens writes ("Re:  Bug#3772: lilo should not depend on MBR"):
> probably best to simply not run the postinst.

Or to say `no'.  Not running the postinst isn't the only effect of the
dependency - it also makes dpkg not mark the package as properly
installed, which makes it show up as `broken' in dselect and dpkg
--audit.  The dependency also makes it hard to select LILO without MBR
in dselect.

>   Since MBR is so small, I find

Perhaps MBR should be put in the same package as LILO, then ?  It
might be worth getting it put into the upstream source.

Ian.