-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:21:16 +0200 Ole Toft Jensen <o...@24gold.dk> wrote:
> -----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. > The "user" did not make a "conscious" choice not to install it - I (the "user") was never offered a choice to install or not to install. If it's the default behavior of aptitude to install recommends then something else must have happened. It wouldn't be the first time. - -- Frank -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkq3vyQACgkQIyN89Z1rCtEOKQCcCexy43eiOWBgmMdlLtlfJweI NOMAni+JmYQUXxtpQKTkMIKgJwrg34pL =w82w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
