From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KQo3u-0004Ht-V4 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:48:42 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQo3t-0004EG-9E for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:48:41 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQo3r-0004AW-BN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:48:40 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37125 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQo3r-0004AK-7p for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:48:39 -0400 Received: from mailout02.t-online.de ([194.25.134.17]:45029) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQo3q-0005of-Km for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:48:38 -0400 Received: from fwd25.aul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 1KQo3o-0001b1-02; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:48:36 +0200 Received: from [10.3.2.2] (E3X9tvZHrhrFwox4ZSBMCres4T4Rw0JLwGcg1Adl45lDCauTSRXaJHgz+J6is0NwxO@[217.235.210.107]) by fwd25.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1KQo3e-1umZpw0; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:48:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4899F1F4.70906@t-online.de> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:48:20 +0200 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <4888E3C5.9090707@t-online.de> <4888E868.10404@t-online.de> <20080725204222.GE18149@thorin> <48922F66.4050803@t-online.de> <48975C7B.7060803@t-online.de> <20080804200002.GA28904@thorin> <48976922.3090109@t-online.de> <20080804214151.GB11798@thorin> <489843F7.1070303@t-online.de> <20080805200944.GB1113@thorin> In-Reply-To: <20080805200944.GB1113@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: E3X9tvZHrhrFwox4ZSBMCres4T4Rw0JLwGcg1Adl45lDCauTSRXaJHgz+J6is0NwxO X-TOI-MSGID: e495423a-7acb-489d-9ce4-5b78ce786924 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] update-grub for Cygwin 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: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:48:41 -0000 Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:13:43PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > >>> Why not have the user write a custom entry then? I think it clutters the >>> user interface to add options for everything. If a corner case (boot a non >>> native disk, can't use os-prober) can be supported by creating a new config >>> file, why not do that? It was the whole reason for designing update-grub >>> to >>> be easily extensible. >>> >> Even with the new configuration parameter, user can still decide to >> leave the parameter unset and write a custom entry. >> > > My concern is not with presenting too many options to the user, but with having > to support them. In general, if a use case can be supported without adding a > new user option, I think it's much better not to add it. > > OK. I committed the simplified version (no configuration parameter). Christian