Re: grub cvs ... configfile

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Apr 19, 2006, at 9:36 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 April 2006 18:35, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > I think the menuentry were much better and more descriptive. I don't
> > > > think there is a need to have both and it only confuses people. So I
> > > > would propose to remove @-version.
> > >
> > > I agree. The "@" is a very odd syntax. Since "menuentry" works as 
> > > well,
> > > I think "@" should be removed.
> >
> > It was added because Okuji wanted something short for this.  I do not
> > care as long as there is a long command.
>
> Marco is right. This was my request. @ is just a command aliased for
> menuentry, and I like it. Since you are not obligated to use @, please 
> do not
> remove it.

Offering multiple commands that do the same thing is not a good design 
philosphy, and from the other comments on this subject I know I'm not 
alone in that belief. No offense, but I don't think one developer 
liking it is a good enough reason.

I still would like to see it removed.

-Hollis