On Fr, 22.06.18 15:54, Kyle Marek (pspps...@gmail.com) wrote: > What is the benefit to sharing $BOOT between different operating > systems/distros? > > I'd like to point out that $BOOT doesn't have to be shared to dual-boot > multiple distros or benefit from other details of BLS.
But it's an awful mess... Whenever one OS updates or installs its boot loader it tends to kick out all the others, unless it contains messy scripts that try to find the other boot loaders first, and readds them to the menu it's mostly luck if things work. With the bootloader spec this is cleaned up, as it's built around drop-in files in a shared directory, instead of exclusive last-writer ownership of the boot loader. Ultimately it just takes inspiration how RPM-based OSes nowadays heavily rely on drop-in dirs so that lose coupling between packages canbe implemented, as packages generally can't and shouldn't override each other's files. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GIOCGO6CXSF7OW266ZSBQZNBZCPXF43W/
