From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: var=foo should be valid?
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:16:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091204211629.GJ1528@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091130093949.GA6439@riva.ucam.org>
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:39:50AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> I would appreciate it if we left it as it is now. It is not
> intrinsically bad to have both, and GRUB 2 is already deployed in
> production so it's quite likely that people will in fact be using both
> syntaxes. (Indeed, the configuration file I'm delivering by default in
> Ubuntu 9.10 uses both syntaxes! I should probably normalise that but I
> simply hadn't thought about it as being any kind of problem.) We should
> not break production installations when there is no reason to do so.
Don't worry, we can't promise we'll stick to an interface forever, but
we're careful not to break existing setups.
--
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."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-04 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-29 18:39 var=foo should be valid? Carles Pina i Estany
2009-11-29 18:45 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2009-11-29 18:50 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2009-11-30 9:39 ` Colin Watson
2009-11-30 13:48 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2009-12-04 21:16 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2009-12-04 21:21 ` Robert Millan
2009-12-04 21:55 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2009-12-12 0:04 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2009-12-13 12:45 ` Carles Pina i Estany
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