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Bug 204 - both grub and lilo in system
Summary: both grub and lilo in system
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-01-17 03:19 UTC by Mikael Hallendal (hallski) (RETIRED)
Modified: 2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
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Description Mikael Hallendal (hallski) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-01-17 03:19:00 UTC
Is there any good reason why both grub and lilo is being merged by emerge system.
I think we should just have grub there.
Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-01-18 23:04:59 UTC
Yes, some people need lilo for whatever reason.  I think we should keep it. 
(there are always going to be questionable packages like less, iptables, etc. 
It all depends on the person and default-1.0_rc6 is supposed to be a
*reasonable* (not perfect, which is impossible) default that will be pleasing to
a majority of people).  We have system profiles if people want to create a
"lean-1.0_rc6" profile, which is fine.
Comment 2 Mikael Hallendal (hallski) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-01-19 04:21:10 UTC
less and iptables is not the same because grub and lilo does the same thing,
having both of them in the default system doesn't make sense.
It's no problems for those that want lilo to just merge it after they have
merged system. 

Just like we do with syslogger, xfsprogs and lvm-user.
Comment 3 Mikael Hallendal (hallski) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-01-19 04:22:29 UTC
Also, removing lilo causes it to be reinstalled when you do emerge system which
is very annoying.