All, I have spoken with floppym about this (he is the primary maintainer of grub2), and he told me to go for it if I want to take on the project, so I want some thoughts.
Currently, grub2 defaults, with the multislot use flag on, to renaming things away from upstream -- for example, grub2-install vs grub-install. With the multislot use flag off, grub2 doesn't mess with the binary names; it leaves them the way upstream names them. I feel that new installs don't need multislot since they won't be migrating from grub legasy, so I want to turn the multislot flag off in the grub2 ebuilds. This would be done along with publishing a news item explaining that if you want to keep the multislot names, you should add "sys-boot/grub multislot" to /etc/portage/package.use. So, again, this would affect new installs, but users can stop it from happening on their systems if they want to do so. Thoughts? William
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