why was LILO removed from centOS 4.2?

[mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes)]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 13:28 +0100, Ulrik S. Kofod wrote:
> Bryan J. Smith sagde:
> >> when using centOS 4.2 CD #1 I need
> >> CD #3 aswell to get LILO....
> >
> > Well, CentOS certainly seems to be the "bitch list" as of late.
> > Welcome to the party!  ;->
> >
> 
> Just need to point out that I'm VERY happy with centOS!
> I just think it is a little silly having to download 650MB just to get LILO :)

Maybe ... but it would be sillier to bump something that is part of the
default install off CD-1 and add an optional item that requires passing
in options at boot time to enable it ... when 99.9% of the people won't
use it :)

Actually, what packages are on which disks is a magically done thing by
the build process (the anaconda supplied programs pkgorder and
buildinstall control it) and it would be hard, but not impossible, to
change.


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