From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LVvJJ-0006JS-O6 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:06:01 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVvJH-0006GQ-F5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:05:59 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVvJG-0006FS-3l for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:05:59 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59220 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVvJF-0006F7-Rr for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:05:57 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:35787) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVvJF-0003Li-9m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:05:57 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LVvE2-0006CE-Bt; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:00:34 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LVvIj-00024D-PX; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:05:25 +0100 Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 23:05:25 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090207220525.GL6343@thorin> References: <20090128070905.4dcf7f4f@gibibit.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090128070905.4dcf7f4f@gibibit.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: anthony.cunningham@gmail.com Subject: Re: Random selections and changing splash screen X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:06:00 -0000 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."