Am Freitag, den 26.06.2009, 18:19 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 02:29:47PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Hi Felix, > > > > On Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2009, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > We could remove the `ascii.pf2' and so only break the graphical terminal > > > on a package purge, but I don't think it would be good to remove the > > > whole /boot/grub. Maybe people want to purge the package but still wants > > > to have a working grub2. > > > > Huh, they remove, even purge the grub-pc package and still expect it to be > > working? If I remove apache, I dont expect the webserver to be still > > working. > > > > I dont understand ;-) > > Hi, > > Apache doesn't install to your MBR. As long as GRUB is in MBR, user will > expect it to work. We can't wipe out files that are critical to its boot > process because it's not something that every user will expect. So the > only option is to be on the safe side. >
Maybe we could add a debconf prompt on purge to clear all grub2 files from /boot/grub. But I think that should default to no and so piuparts would still be not happy. -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
