On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 09:32:33 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote:

> > it probably is worth taking the time to see if you can bend to the
> > tool rather than making the tool bend to you.  
> 
> At face value, this is antithetical to how computers should work.
> 
> Computers should do our bidding, NOT the other way around.
> 
> That being said, sometimes it's the case that if you're having to bend 
> to tool too much, you might be trying to do something the tool is not 
> meant to do, and as such you should re-think what you're trying to do.

In the case of GRUB2 that is unlikely to be the case, as it is meant to
do everything. That's why the auto-generated config files are so long
and full of conditionals. On a system you have full control over, you
can remove all the conditionals.
 
> After that brief sanity check, by all means, bend the tool to your 
> liking.  }:-)

GRUB2 is incredibly bendy, if only the documentation were as compliant to
the wishes of its users,


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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