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.