On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:31:21PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 04:38:23PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > 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. > > Hi, > > I'm unfamiliar with os-prober. What other purposes are there for installing > it? grub-mkconfig is the only one I can think of, so the situation you > describe sounds very unlikely. Could you ellaborate?
Well, I happen to know that our graphical installer depends on it :-), and sometimes people install it for testing purposes (or it accidentally remains installed). More generally though I'm not a fan of "remove this package" as a configuration mechanism. > I'm concerned about the number of options in grub-mkconfig in general. It > has a tendency to grow a lot, and unfortunately they're not documented. Maybe that's amenable to being addressed in itself - perhaps a manual page? (info is fine for complete manuals for large systems but not really great for quick-reference kind of things.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
