On 05/12/2016 09:32 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
btrfs is the default filesystem of openSUSE
lilo does not support btrfs
This is neither an argument pro or contra lilo, but the above logic doesn't feel right to me. Open source is based on diversity originating from the freedom to have it. Thus saying a) "A is standard", b) "B does not support A", and finally the unspoken consequence c) "B can be removed" is over-simplifying in my eyes. E.g. the KDE and GNOME desktops have ever been the standard for SUSE and openSUSE later on; yet, I've personally always used yet another $WINDOW_MANAGER. Similarly, I've personally never used btrfs, and I know quite a bunch of folks who didn't either. Lilo doesn't support RAID? Well, some guys wouldn't probably care. They're free to use it for every purpose they want. My point is: step c) in the above chain is wrong, because the question has not been on the spot. Some PKG is broken right now; therefore the only valid - open-source-way - question is whether that PKG is important enough for someone to fix and support it (even if it's just for another couple of years). In Per's case - I assume from his reply "[...] the only boot-manager we use" that the company he's working for uses lilo - that company will simply have to spend some effort - either for fixing lilo or for going away from it in their product. Nevertheless, openSUSE may choose to not include it in Factory anymore, and that lilo only continues living in some private repo or even a private/corporate OBS instance. Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org