Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Thu Mar 22 17:58:06 UTC 2012


On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Tom Horsley wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:58:24 +0100
> Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>> and yes you can ignore the "# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE"
>> as long you do not call "grub2-mkconfig" which is not
>> needed usually
>
> The actual abomination with grub2 is the fact that
> the grub2-mkconfig tool exists. One of the main forces
> that led to the death of lilo was the ridiculous need
> to run extra tools after updating the files in order to
> actually make them take effect.

My suspicion is that we can look forward
to something like autoconf for grub.

-- 
Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class,
whom I teach not to run with scissors,
that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword."  --  Lily


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