On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > I want to wait until either the old grub doesn't work for me or the new grub > is known to be stable and has got all the kinks worked out. Even then, I > may wait until I have a issue or the old grub leaves the tree. I seem to > recall hal was stable and worked for most people too. It just didn't work > here for me.
Meaning you want grub-legacy to remain in the portage tree until you no longer need it and not when some dev decides he no longer wants to support it. So do I. Of course, we have the option of personal overlays. Get the ebuild for grub as well as a copy of the code, build your own overlay, modify the ebuild, test it, maintain it, and write it to a CD somewhere. When you install a new machine load it on in the build process and you're in good shape, right? If I was really on top of this stuff I'd run my own rsync server and keep it there for the dozen or so Gentoo machines & VMs lurking around my house these days. I'm just not on top of it. ;-) - Mark
