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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: {bi,multi}arch support for all x86/amd64/ppc/sparc systems
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 20:40:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111207204036.22e14b80@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pan.2011.12.08.02.12.37@cox.net

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On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 02:12:37 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:

> 2) What about grub-2, and while we're on it, is a switch to that expected 
> any time soon, and/or is there a grub-static-2 in the wings?  With the 
> grub-1 gpt patches (and hopefully btrfs support at some point) I'm not 
> sure that staying with grub-1 isn't my preference in any case, but I do 
> worry how long that's going to be viable, especially with btrfs coming 
> and no grub-1 btrfs support that I'm aware of, and I have literally /no/ 
> idea what might or might not be in gentoo's pipeline,
> grub-wise.

I think grub-0.97 was one of the first things I worked on as a user becoming
interested in development sixish years ago.  It was a god-awful mess then.
It's much worse now.

It's also keeping 4.6.2 out of ~arch. :/


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-08  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-07 22:15 [gentoo-dev] {bi,multi}arch support for all x86/amd64/ppc/sparc systems Mike Frysinger
2011-12-07 23:41 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-12-08  2:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-12-08  2:40   ` Ryan Hill [this message]
2011-12-08  3:34   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-12-11 21:01 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27 21:00 ` Mike Frysinger

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