> 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 New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
