Since syslinux 4.05 needs uuid and there are targets that do not have util-linux which provides uuid we moved syslinux prio after e2fsprogs which also provided uuid if util-linux not present.
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[L] GPL
[S] Stable
[V] 4.05
[P] X -?---5---9 110.300
[P] X -?---5---9 179.500
[D] 1150741635 syslinux-4.05.tar.bz2 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/