From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1BYO3W-0001La-0k for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 07:49:14 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYO3U-0001LG-90 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 07:49:12 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYO3S-0001Kv-2s for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 07:49:11 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BYO3S-0001Kj-0o for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 07:49:10 -0400 Received: from [212.43.237.68] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BYO26-00011f-Ub for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 07:47:47 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7534FF0D2C38 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 07:47:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:51:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20040601121704.GA4680@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <200406091622.40030.okuji@enbug.org> <87y8mwkcz0.wl@pc-jeroen.dekkers.cx> In-Reply-To: <87y8mwkcz0.wl@pc-jeroen.dekkers.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200406101351.32692.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: normal vs. rescue mode commands X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:49:12 -0000 On Wednesday 09 June 2004 16:44, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > The European Parliament voted against software patents last > time. There is a good chance they will do it next time too. Maybe. It depends on the coming election. > Yes, but still I don't think that we should obfuscate the module > names. Multiboot is already 9 letters, for example. Why are abbreviations so bad? In fact, we use "mb" as an abbreviation of multiboot in GRUB Legacy, but there is no problem with this. I agree that abbreviations should be avoided for ordinary users. But the filenames of modules are not for ordinary users. They should be used only by those who know how GRUB works more or less. The advantage of abbreviations: GRUB is compatible with all filesystems, including popular ones (e.g. FAT, ISO9660, MinixFS, HFS). The disadvantage of them: Sometimes filenames do not tell you what they are clearly. For me, the advantage looks much more important, since the disadvantage can be overcome with a good documentation. > > All the essential files fit: > > > > stage1 -> 5 + 0 > > stage2 -> 5 + 0 > > menu.lst -> 4 + 3 > > Yes, but stage1.5 files don't. So? Okuji