>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 21 September 2009 09:49:39 Frank wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:09 +0200 >> "thveillon.debian" <thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> 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 ? > > Since grub-pc does not *require* os-prober to be installed to function, > having > the co-installation enforced by the package manager would be inappropriate. > > Recommends relationships are the strongest relationship that is not strictly > enforced by the package manager. In the default configuration aptitude (the > recommended package manager) installs Recommends. The relevant configuration > key is Aptitude::Recommends-Important. > > It has been a long time since I used apt-get, but I believe the same is true > of it; at the very least a message is shown to the user recommending the > installation of os-prober. > > So, the maintainers are assuming that at least one user would like to use > GRUB2 without os-prober, which seems a safe assumption. (I only have one > installation on my home PC, so you can count me as that user if you'd like.)
Thanks for the explanation, you read minds better than I do. You're 100% right, as I said to another person pointing in the same direction there's really nothing to complain about then (as long it works, of course...). Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
