On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:19:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:31:21PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 04:38:23PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Some people seem to want to disable os-prober for various reasons (e.g. > > > they have lots of test installations lying around that they don't > > > normally want to get in the way, or they don't want installations on > > > external drives to be included permanently in the boot menu, etc.). Now, > > > they can just remove the os-prober package, but that doesn't really > > > scale as other packages are allowed to depend on it too. > > > > > > Perhaps we could have a configuration option for this? Patch attached. > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm unfamiliar with os-prober. What other purposes are there for installing > > it? grub-mkconfig is the only one I can think of, so the situation you > > describe sounds very unlikely. Could you ellaborate? > > Well, I happen to know that our graphical installer depends on it :-), > and sometimes people install it for testing purposes (or it accidentally > remains installed). More generally though I'm not a fan of "remove this > package" as a configuration mechanism.
Ok then. > > I'm concerned about the number of options in grub-mkconfig in general. It > > has a tendency to grow a lot, and unfortunately they're not documented. > > Maybe that's amenable to being addressed in itself - perhaps a manual > page? (info is fine for complete manuals for large systems but not > really great for quick-reference kind of things.) We generate manpages dynamically using help2man. Improving --help output would improve the manpage, and it'd be nice to have all of this documented. But this is just my "wish of the day". It shouldn't be a stopper for adding this option if you need it. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
