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From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Switchup-mode and boottime selector? Was: eselect init
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 15:55:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130529205523.GA6281@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130529215600.0e53c63f@TOMWIJ-GENTOO>

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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 09:56:00PM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > There are a couple of other possible approaches...
> > 
> > 1) If the 2 systems can achieve peacefull co-existance (i.e. no
> > identically-named files with different contents) then simply have 2
> > boot entries in /etc/lilo.conf (or grub equivalant)...
> > 
> > [SNIP to shorten mail]
> 
> Users can already do this, this isn't a solution.
> 
> We want to make this easier towards the user, therefore doing heavy
> discussion to exhaust all the alternatives and maybe someone's
> interested in implementing one of them that appears most feasible.

Since users can already do this, why are we bothering with re-inventing
the wheel? How does running an eselect init command make it easier for
the user than telling them to edit their boot loader config file?

Gentoo users are expected to build their kernel and write their boot
loader config file initially, so why are we trying to dumb this down?

William


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-29 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 139+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-25  9:54 [gentoo-dev] eselect init Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 10:25 ` Peter Stuge
2013-05-25 11:57   ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26  1:52     ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-26  8:50       ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26  2:02     ` Peter Stuge
2013-05-26  8:56       ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 19:08   ` Matthew Thode
2013-05-26 14:13     ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-26 23:54       ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 11:13 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-05-25 12:03   ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 12:25     ` Pacho Ramos
2013-05-25 15:42   ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 11:29 ` Sergei Trofimovich
2013-05-25 12:12   ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 13:15   ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 17:35     ` Sergei Trofimovich
2013-05-25 19:49   ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-05-25 12:13 ` hasufell
2013-05-25 15:51   ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 13:38 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 19:09   ` J. Roeleveld
2013-05-25 19:55     ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 20:07       ` Alex Xu
2013-05-25 20:59         ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 12:59       ` J. Roeleveld
2013-05-26 13:58         ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 14:54         ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-26 13:15       ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 14:07         ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 14:44           ` Rich Freeman
2013-05-26  6:43 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26  8:58   ` Robert David
2013-05-26  9:20     ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26  9:32       ` Robert David
2013-05-26  9:45       ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 10:09         ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 11:45           ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 12:01             ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26  9:21     ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 10:01       ` Robert David
2013-05-26 10:11         ` Rich Freeman
2013-05-26 10:18           ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-05-26 11:28           ` hasufell
2013-05-26 12:10         ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26  9:55   ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-26 10:39     ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 10:57     ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 11:40       ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-26 12:08         ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 12:24           ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-26 14:58         ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-27 10:36           ` [gentoo-dev] Switchup-mode and boottime selector? Was: " Duncan
2013-05-27 20:26             ` Alex Xu
2013-05-27 22:40             ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-28  9:56               ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-05-28 11:56                 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-29  0:36                   ` Duncan
2013-05-29  8:52                     ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-29 18:15                       ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-29 19:56                         ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-29 20:55                           ` William Hubbs [this message]
2013-05-30  0:06                             ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-30  0:22                               ` William Hubbs
2013-05-30  1:36                                 ` Duncan
2013-05-30  6:35                                 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-30 20:41                                   ` William Hubbs
2013-05-30  6:46                                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-05-30 13:54                                   ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-31  6:21                                     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-05-30  6:30                             ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-22 19:35                             ` Markos Chandras
2013-05-30  2:52                           ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-30  6:19                             ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-30  6:36                               ` Dale
2013-05-30  6:31                             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-05-28  3:55           ` [gentoo-dev] " Luca Barbato
2013-05-28  4:19             ` Michał Górny
2013-05-28  4:43               ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-28 12:15                 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-28 12:15                 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-26 11:58       ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 14:52         ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-26 15:39           ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 16:41     ` William Hubbs
2013-05-26 16:48       ` William Hubbs
2013-05-26 16:55         ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 22:58           ` William Hubbs
2013-05-26 23:47             ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-27 23:45               ` [gentoo-dev] Separate boot/root already [WAS: eselect init] Walter Dnes
2013-05-28 15:07                 ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-01  9:23 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: eselect init Steven J. Long
2013-06-01 11:43   ` Steven J. Long
2013-06-02  9:15   ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-02 18:20     ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-02 18:48       ` Fabio Erculiani
2013-06-08 13:37         ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-02 22:35       ` [gentoo-dev] " Luca Barbato
2013-06-03  0:37         ` Walter Dnes
2013-06-03  0:57           ` Rich Freeman
2013-06-03  7:03           ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-03  9:42           ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-03  6:19         ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-06-03  6:26         ` [gentoo-dev] " Pacho Ramos
2013-06-04 18:55         ` William Hubbs
2013-06-04 19:09           ` Rich Freeman
2013-06-08 13:28         ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-20 10:16 ` [gentoo-dev] " Fabio Erculiani
2013-06-20 17:10   ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-20 20:48     ` William Hubbs
2013-06-25  4:53       ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-20 20:56   ` [gentoo-dev] " William Hubbs
2013-06-21  2:39     ` Michał Górny
2013-06-21  4:16       ` William Hubbs
2013-06-21 10:23         ` Michał Górny
2013-06-21 15:16           ` William Hubbs
2013-06-21 15:23             ` Fabio Erculiani
2013-06-21 16:42               ` William Hubbs
2013-06-22 11:23                 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2013-06-22 11:57                   ` hasufell
2013-06-21 19:34               ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-22  1:27                 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-06-22  1:48                   ` Michael Weber
2013-06-21 15:29             ` Michał Górny
2013-06-21 16:13               ` Markos Chandras
2013-06-21 16:50                 ` William Hubbs
2013-06-21 19:36                   ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-21 10:30       ` Michael Weber
2013-06-21 11:19         ` Fabio Erculiani
2013-06-21 11:26           ` Pacho Ramos
2013-06-21 11:50             ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-21 14:36               ` William Hubbs
2013-06-21 15:48                 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-06-22  6:59                   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-06-22 10:07                     ` Pacho Ramos
2013-06-22 11:13                       ` Michael Weber
2013-06-22 11:26                         ` Rich Freeman
2013-06-22 17:05                       ` Luca Barbato

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