Re: Configuration option to disable os-prober?

[Isaac Dupree]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 16:38 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some people seem to want to disable os-prober for various reasons (e.g.
> > they have lots of test installations lying around that they don't
> > normally want to get in the way, or they don't want installations on
> > external drives to be included permanently in the boot menu, etc.). Now,
> > they can just remove the os-prober package, but that doesn't really
> > scale as other packages are allowed to depend on it too.
> >
> > Perhaps we could have a configuration option for this? Patch attached.
>
> Fine with me (but I'd like to hear from somebody who actually runs
> Debian or Ubuntu).

I run Ubuntu... I can't say I've yet wanted to do anything that needed 
this patch, but it seems like the right idea to me... or,

er, hmm, Configure option versus runtime option?  I don't know from my 
cursory inspection if there's an issue here, but you (Colin) would be 
able to describe how/whether that's relevant

-Isaac