-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 05:58:51PM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: > > Frank wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:09 +0200 > >> "thveillon.debian" <thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Obviously grub-pc is not ready for primetime yet. On the update it > >>> did on my machine, it failed to pick up the Ubuntu installation on another > >>> partition. How did it get migrated to Squeeze ? > >>> > >> The package "os-prober" is taking care of other OS detection, it's > >> "recommended" but not automatically installed. > > > > Does that mean maintainers assume you only have one installation ? > > I can't read their minds, but it sure seems that installing os-prober as > a dependency would do no harm to "single-booting" systems, and would > save some trouble to "multi-booting" users. Maybe there's already a > "whishlist" bug opened about it ? > The default behavior of aptitude and apt-get these days at least in sid and testing is to install Recommends automatically, so the user must have made a concious choice not to install os-prober or not to install Recommends packages by default.
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