lvm is needed by (installed) mkinitrd-3.5.14-1

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 01:05, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jim Popovitch (jimpop at yahoo.com) said: 
> > > > But can't you have an existing initrd without mkinitrd? 
> > 
> > So, you think that you need mkinitrd to boot a initrd' kernel?
> 
> To make a new initrd when you upgrade your kernel, yes.

AHHH, but in order to be that far down the road, you would already have
booted your lvm root partition, thus negating the need to require lvm as
a dependency of mkinitrd.  So, since you seem to be defending the
practice, why again is lvm a dependency of mkinitrd?

Chicken != Egg.  ;)

-Jim P.