On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 05:23:48PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > So we have a package that is essential in some circumstances, that costs > next to nothing to maintain, and that takes up <0.1% of a CD's space. You're missing a huge part of the picture. Having lilo the package (even though as you note, it's not really maintained) might not be much, but it requires a lot of complicated kludgy infrastructure in the installer, and in mkinitrd, etc., and makes kernel updates very fragile. *That's* what makes the developers want to drop it -- it's not just to make your life hard. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>