From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 50E2D138330 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:29:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53D5FE09B3; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:29:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1497EE0838 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:29:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [100.42.103.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: williamh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 22D8F340CD2 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:29:19 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 17:28:55 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: the demise of grub:0 Message-ID: <20161004222855.GB17685@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20161003215933.GA28448@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Archives-Salt: 2390b228-20aa-4e1c-9979-6cb88450ee55 X-Archives-Hash: aaeb33f469266d7776adbd03ff004eea --TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 05:04:12PM -0500, Dan Douglas wrote: > Also grub2-mkconfig is disgusting. I wonder if anybody is interested > in making something better because I doubt it would be much work for > someone that knows grub well. 90% of what it does is generate > boilerplate code that few people understand. If you know grub well, you can hand write a grub.cfg without using grub-mkconfig at all. There is a perception that you need grub-mkconfig, but this is not true. William --TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAlf0LScACgkQblQW9DDEZTjDlwCeI73cyuUxeSSSiUrbpIVVY7si uh4AoLV6XXGbJvh0tDfxHqW10/b6kYID =0Ofy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu--