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 1SkgGe-0002Jo-7h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:50:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74BD8E0574; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:49:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42C21E0724 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain ([94.246.89.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q5TImAxY019968 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:48:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id D4C147007B; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:46:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] grub2 in portage Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:46:36 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: ceb69383-deec-4a4a-ab77-9d2c17c8853b X-Archives-Hash: beea9868909e99959fa4fffdd975a27b Now that grub is slotted (slot:2 is grub2; slot:0 is legacy grub), an update world will merge grub-2.00 along side my current grub-0.97-r12. Am I correct in believing that, if I *do* the emerge but *not* do anything else with grub, I will continue to use legacy grub (-0.97-r12) whenever I boot? I realize I can add sys-boot/grub:2 to package.mask thanks, allan