On 12:39 Sun 07 Aug, William Hubbs wrote:
> 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
>
Could you please do
$ cd ~/<gentoo-repo>.git
$ git grep grub2-
_BEFORE_ introducing changes? I can confirm that at least winusb is
broken for good in stable Gentoo.
