Re: RFC: Inclusion of bootloader utilities in task-base

[Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>]

Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>   This raises the question if user should be allowed (far less
> required) to change bootloader's standard cmdline as *the normal
> course of using distro* (== task-base). So, maybe the 1st choice ("Is
> it good idea at all") is worth more attention.

Ah, this is a question about which parts of task-base a DISTRO should
include or not (by use of it's DISTRO_FEATURES).  Not about whether
task-base should give distros the choice in the first place.

Is Angstrom (the only DISTRO which currently has this feature enabled)
meant to be a hand-holding-for-naive-users distro, or a power-users distro?

And yes, it's most likely that an end-user distro would put a shell script
wrapper around the bootloader utility to safeguard the user for normal
end-user operations like changing the rootfs load location, or setting up
nfsroot operation.

-- Rod