On 05/29/2013 09:55 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 09:56:00PM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote: >>> There are a couple of other possible approaches... >>> >>> 1) If the 2 systems can achieve peacefull co-existance (i.e. >>> no identically-named files with different contents) then simply >>> have 2 boot entries in /etc/lilo.conf (or grub equivalant)... >>> >>> [SNIP to shorten mail] >> >> Users can already do this, this isn't a solution. >> >> We want to make this easier towards the user, therefore doing >> heavy discussion to exhaust all the alternatives and maybe >> someone's interested in implementing one of them that appears >> most feasible. > > Since users can already do this, why are we bothering with > re-inventing the wheel? How does running an eselect init command > make it easier for the user than telling them to edit their boot > loader config file? > > Gentoo users are expected to build their kernel and write their > boot loader config file initially, so why are we trying to dumb > this down? > > William >
There is no harm in providing alternatives. -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
