Re: [Fwd: [Bug 154763] Grub is inadequate without Lilo for backup]

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:02:12PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> Would you care to offer any reasons as to why Lilo should or should not
> be available during Fedora and RHEL installations?

Its unmaintained
Its obsolete
Nobody in Red Hat tests/qa's it
We can use the disk space for real packages
Its more productive to fix grub than import prehistoric baggage like lilo
lilo doesn't understand file system layouts
etc