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From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: anthony.cunningham@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Random selections and changing splash screen
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 23:05:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090207220525.GL6343@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090128070905.4dcf7f4f@gibibit.com>

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:09:05AM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
>   random   // Any random entry
>   random --class=free-os    // Any free operating system
>   random --class=linux --exclude-class=rescue
>   // ^ Any Linux distribution, but not rescue entries.

This looks very ad-hoc.  Is it possible we could just provide a facility to
obtain entropy (e.g. random --min 0 --max 3) and let scripting do the rest?

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."



      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-07 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-28 13:01 Random selections and changing splash screen Antóin Óg Ó Cuinneagáin
2009-01-28 15:09 ` Colin D Bennett
2009-01-28 16:39   ` Pavel Roskin
2009-02-07 22:05   ` Robert Millan [this message]

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