lilo and grub recommends

[Ben Collins]

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 23:48 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I was wondering if someone from the kernel team could provide an
> explanation why the two of these are marked as Recommends for the
> kernel images themselves.  This is causing the side effect of getting
> lilo or grub included in chroots that are used for building Live CDs.
> Normally these get installed by an installer at the end anyhow in the
> resultant system.

Mostly historical. Fact is, having a kernel installed and not having
grub or lilo installed, is not correct 99% of the time. That kind of
falls into the recommends category.

But I'm open to suggestions on it.

> Regards
> 
> -- 
> Mario Limonciello
> superm1 at gmail.com
>