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Re: cleaning old suggests



On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:57:29PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 January 2006 20:25, maximilian attems wrote:
> > * boot loader:
> > grub | lilo (>= 19.1)
> > grub is widely deployed by d-i and most actively used.
> > lilo  has almost no active dev.
> > lilo isn't supported by xen.
> 
> grub still does not support some cases (mainly XFS on / IIRC) and in those 
> cases d-i _does_ force lilo.
> 
> If it really is a "suggests" and not "recommends", I guess dropping the 
> dep does no harm as grub won't be pulled in automatically, but again, 
> lilo still does support configurations not supported by grub.

sorry for the confusion current suggest is "lilo (>= 19.1) | grub".
i would propose to swith to the aboves named order, not drop.

--
maks




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