On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just throwing this out there - I'm not really stating my opinion on > this, as I'm fairly neutral. > > Considering grub development is basically dead (waiting for grub2), > what do you guys think about adding the splashimage patch to our > official grub? See grub-gfx in community. I have used it for ages on > my machine with no issues. It simply adds one config file variable. > > As I said, I'm neutral on this. It kinda flies in the face of the > minimal patches idea, but grub is pretty much all patches these days. >
Are we sure there are no negative effects to the patch (the patch is pretty big [1]) ? I don't have a strong opinion either, but I'm not sure if/why we should fix something which isn't a problem just because it looks nice, thereby possibly creating new problems ? Douglas, did you ever received messages / bug reports saying grub-gfx did not work for them? Ronald [1] http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/community/system/grub-gfx/grub-0.97-graphics.patch?view=markup&revision=1.1&root=community&pathrev=CURRENT
