[gentoo-dev] rfc: turning off grub2 multislot use flag

[William Hubbs]

All,

I have spoken with floppym about this (he is the primary maintainer of
grub2), and he told me to go for it if I want to take on the project, so
I want some thoughts.

Currently, grub2 defaults, with the multislot use flag on, to renaming
things away from upstream -- for example, grub2-install vs grub-install.

With the multislot use flag off, grub2 doesn't mess with the binary
names; it leaves them the way upstream names them.

I feel that new installs don't need multislot since they won't be
migrating from grub legasy, so I want to turn the multislot flag off in
the grub2 ebuilds.

This would be done along with publishing a news item explaining that if
you want to keep the multislot names, you should add
"sys-boot/grub multislot" to /etc/portage/package.use.

So, again, this would affect new installs, but users can stop it from
happening on their systems if they want to do so.

Thoughts?

William