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RE: rename grub to grub-legacy ?


From: Gregg C Levine
Subject: RE: rename grub to grub-legacy ?
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:53:28 -0400

Hello!
Indeed. You are quite correct concerning GRUB as it is described.

However given the fluid state of GRUB2 I am reluctant to try it out unless I
can convince my hardware to play along.
--
Gregg C Levine address@hidden
"The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
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> address@hidden On Behalf Of Felix Zielcke
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:59 AM
> To: 'The development of GRUB 2'
> Subject: RE: rename grub to grub-legacy ?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden [mailto:grub-devel-
> > address@hidden On Behalf Of Pavel Roskin
> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 5:37 PM
> > To: The development of GRUB 2
> > Subject: Re: rename grub to grub-legacy ?
> >
> > I believe Okuji wanted to use a different naming scheme, that would put
> > "grub2" or "grub-legacy" above trunk.  You may want to check it to
> > avoid
> > moving things twice.
> 
> Right, there was already a topic about the SVN structure I totally forgot
about:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-07/msg00248.html
> 
> > All the above notwithstanding, I'm still skeptical about the whole
> > moving idea based on my experience with other projects.  Repositories
> > are for developers and should be used in the way that minimizes
> > troubles
> > for developers rather than reduces the entry barrier for newbies.
> 
> I think grub-legacy is dead from developer POV or am I wrong?
> 
> But you're right if we change things then we should do this only once,
> so I'm now not that sure what to do now.
> 
> 
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