[Previous response appears to have been consumed in the aether] > Can you clarify why it does? > I do not really like wasting space on every Debian system without a good > reason.
Well I can tell you what we use it for in febootstrap: We boot the appliance using a custom initramfs which has a statically linked init (no libc6) and which has to load kernel modules in order to mount the real root filesystem. In order to load those, we need a statically linked insmod.static. However I understand that having insmod.static on every Debian machine just for this purpose is a waste of space. Can it be easily included in a sub-package? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
