From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Configuration option to disable os-prober?
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:22:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247073732.2768.3.camel@mj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090708153823.GA7367@riva.ucam.org>
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 16:38 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some people seem to want to disable os-prober for various reasons (e.g.
> they have lots of test installations lying around that they don't
> normally want to get in the way, or they don't want installations on
> external drives to be included permanently in the boot menu, etc.). Now,
> they can just remove the os-prober package, but that doesn't really
> scale as other packages are allowed to depend on it too.
>
> Perhaps we could have a configuration option for this? Patch attached.
Fine with me (but I'd like to hear from somebody who actually runs
Debian or Ubuntu).
Please provide ChangeLog entries for your patches so that nobody has to
put words into your mouth.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-08 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-08 15:38 Configuration option to disable os-prober? Colin Watson
2009-07-08 17:22 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2009-07-08 17:58 ` Isaac Dupree
2009-07-08 18:09 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-07-10 17:31 ` Robert Millan
2009-07-10 20:19 ` Colin Watson
2009-07-11 18:29 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-23 12:59 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-23 13:22 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-08-23 14:31 ` Colin Watson
2009-08-23 15:09 ` Felix Zielcke
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