On 06/19/2012 07:04 AM, Matej Cepl wrote:
On 18/06/12 21:18, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On 06/18/2012 01:43 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> what competition damned?
>> grub is the best example for things which did not reinvented
>>
>> grub1 was easy to understand and configure
>
> And grub1 would get left behind as new filesystems come out and new
> firmwares come out, and potentially new whole architectures come out.
And what does it have to do with abhorrent configuration files. I am all
for fancy new filesystems, but we do have to have new front-end as well?
The problem in cases like this, is that we don't really have a choice.
GRUB legacy is unmaintained and increasingly lacking in functionality
that is in GRUB2. Since we have made a decision to switch to GRUB2, we
have to deal with the configuration format provided by upstream. There
are only limited number of components where Fedora or Red Hat has a
significant influence and can change this. GRUB2 isn't one of them. So
we live with the less than ideal choices at the distribution level.
Rahu