Re: LILO

[Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch>]

Robert van der Meulen schrieb:
> Quoting Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):
> > After I have tested it I will upload that version to unstable.  It will also
> > be without debconf support, I have no plans to re-add debconf to lilo.
> 
> I don't know if this has come up before, but would it be
> useful to have a Provides: boot-loader for lilo, as well as
> for 'grub' (and other bootloaders), and have the packages
> currently depending on 'lilo' depend on 'boot-loader' ?  I'm
> having a hard time keeping 'lilo' off my system, as i use
> grub.

This would make boot-loader dependencies platform independent as
well. Roussell should propose this on debian-policy, to make it
an "official" virutal package. (I don't propse it myself in case
you oppose Russell.)

ciao, 2ri
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