On 25.06.2014 23:44, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 6/25/2014 1:33 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >> This could be considered as endorsement to continue to use it ... > > No, saying "dont' use this because it is depreciated" is exactly the > opposite endorsing its continued use. > People ignore "don't"s. >>> 2) It seems that --root-directory has been overloaded to specify >>> the efi system directory. This seems like it was the wrong thing >>> to do and again, is totally undocumented. > > >> We already have --efi-directory. Why would you want to endorse >> this archaic usage? > > I don't: I'm pointing out that this usage seems like it was an > undocumented mistake and it should be removed. > It's a mistake. That's why all reference to old usage has been deleted. The option is preserved only for compatibility with old scripts. >>> 3) It appears that --grub-setup used to allow you to specify an >>> alternate program to run instead of grub-setup. Now it seems to >>> check if its argument is "setup" and if so, has the same affect >>> as - --no-bootsector, and otherwise has no effect. This seems >>> completely wrong. > > >> This covers two common use cases known to me a) using it from >> within build directory with --grub=setup=./grub-setup and b) using >> it to disable actual installation with --grub-setup=/bin/true. >> Current code is compatible with them. > > No, it is not. The current code ignores all values of --grub-setup > other than --grub-setup=setup. > You're wrong. Read code. >>> 4) The similar arguments --grub-mkrelpath, --grub-probe, - >>> --grub-editenv, and --font are accepted and completely ignored. >>> If the option no longer works, it should be removed rather than >>> silently ignored. At least that way you don't have people using >>> it and wondering why it isn't working. > > >> Again - common use case is using just built grub without installing >> it. Do you have example of other non-trivial use cases? > > Again, they are now completely ignored and have zero effect. > It's the intent. They're still present in scripts but shouldn't be used anymore. > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
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