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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: turning off grub2 multislot use flag
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2016 18:51:41
Message-Id: 20160807185132.GA29519@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: turning off grub2 multislot use flag by Kristian Fiskerstrand
1 On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 08:28:32PM +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
2 > It will require a lot of documentation updates (wiki, handbook etc) so I
3 > wonder if you don't need symlinks for the grub2* names for a while even
4 > so to ensure compatibility for a deprecation period. New users aren't
5 > expected to have seen all the news items, so that alone isn't enough
6 > until the documentation is updated, and docs can't be updated until the
7 > change has happened itself as itself would be a mismatch.
8
9 If I were to put symlinks in place keeping the grub2 names, people
10 would still see the documentation as correct, and more documentation
11 could be created using the grub2 names, so the symlinks would have to be
12 kept, so no, I don't see the value in symlinks in this case.
13
14 > What is the expected gain from such a change?
15
16 The expected gain is one less gentoo-ism. Upstream calls the commands
17 grub-foo, so we should do the same by default.
18
19 William

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