more Core dependency data

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Jun 15 15:41:14 UTC 2006


Jeremy Katz (katzj at redhat.com) said: 
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 10:07 +0200, Petr Machata wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:08 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > > On 6/12/06, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > genromfs         Extras
> > 
> > This is (?) used for creating initrd images.  Doesn't kernel need to use
> > it during build?
> 
> No, we don't really use romfs for anything

So, this was added to the distro back in 1998. For making boot *floppies*. On 
*SPARC*.

I think it can die. :)

Bill




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