grub2 confusion

[David Lehman]

On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 22:09 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:25:19 +0000 (UTC), J (JB) wrote:
> 
> > I think you criticize him unjustly.

Perhaps. I am getting tired of the protests to grub2 and every other
thing that changes.

> 
> grub2-mkconfig is just a brute-force shell script that ends with
> 
>    # none of the children aborted with error, install the new grub.cfg
>    mv -f ${grub_cfg}.new ${grub_cfg}
> 
> so instead of not shipping an incompatible /etc/grub2.cfg symlink as
> long as this tool obviously cannot handle the symlink, there are lame and
> dubious attempts at defending the symlink.

I personally think we should not ship the symlink, mainly because it is
superfluous. Seriously, is '/etc/grub2.cfg' so much easier to remember
(or type) than '/boot/grub2/grub.cfg'? Nope.

> 
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