[DEP-BLOAT] 'initscripts' require lot of low-level stuff

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Aug 21 16:14:53 UTC 2006


Enrico Scholz (enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) said: 
> the 'initscripts' package has dependencies on lot of low-level stuff like
> dev, e2fsprogs, ethtool... Because 'initscripts' are required by nearly
> every daemon, these low-level tools will be installed everytime. E.g. a
> simple ftp server will require LVM2 tools.

*shrug*. You cannot assume what sort of storage is available.

Bill




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