lvm is needed by (installed) mkinitrd-3.5.14-1

[Rick Stevens]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 18:55, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>Jim Popovitch wrote:
>>
>>>Why does mkinitrd require that I keep lvm?  
>>
>>Is your "/" filesystem on an LVM volume?  
> 
> 
> Negative.  "rpm -e lvm"  just echos $Subject, which tells me that
> mkinitrd requires lvm.  Crazy, I've never seen this on any other distro.

Weird.  Ah, well, it looks like it's just a dependency from rpm.  I can
understand where someone might make an artificial dependency, but I
don't see any code that's dependent.  I think "rpm -e --nodeps lvm" can
be used safely to get rid of it.
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