From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RBzWD-00036f-0y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:46:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D54121C267; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 01:46:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40D521C21B for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 01:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4511B4043 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 01:45:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.083 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.083 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.449, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MkatYIxrRi9X for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 01:45:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4960A1B4015 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 01:45:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBzUn-0002dm-52 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:45:05 +0200 Received: from 68.168.167.182 ([68.168.167.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:45:05 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 68.168.167.182 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:45:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: change and improvement Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 01:41:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4E8AD6C4.7070901@gmail.com> <20111005162007.GA5820@badass.gateway.2wire.net> <20111005184721.01af0bda@toxic.dbnet> <201110060018.50015.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20111006102023.4471babe@toxic.dbnet> <4E8E0112.3010208@orlitzky.com> <20111006230040.04f9af0f@toxic.dbnet> <4E8E1C54.4010706@orlitzky.com> <20111007014214.5756f0f5@toxic.dbnet> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.168.167.182 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1ac18421abdedf587ebaa88a6416c73e On 2011-10-06, Jonas de Buhr wrote: > Am Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:23:32 -0400 > schrieb Michael Orlitzky : > >> > nothing forces you to switch to grub2. >> > >> >> True in theory, but not in practice. > > the purpose of theory is to predict what happens in practice. if it > does't, the theory is wrong. > >>Legacy grub will go away >> eventually. > >>If we have some grub-legacy and some grub2 installs, > > why would you do that? Some distros don't give you a choice. -- Grant