On 2013-03-13 12:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 00:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you >> > also could tidy up grub.cfg and get rid of all the nonsense.
For anyone who actually thinks about following Ralf's advice: if you do that, it is also necessary to divert /usr/sbin/update-grub and replace it with something harmless, say a symlink to /bin/true. Otherwise the local changes to grub.cfg will be overwritten. >> root@tal:~# ls -al /boot/grub/grub.cfg >> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3356 Mar 1 22:53 /boot/grub/grub.cfg >> >> Come on now Ralf, you know better than to offer advice like that. > > I'm serious and I guess in this case my opinion for a change isn't > eccentric. It's a bad fashion, that things we once configured by one > file, now should be configured by several files. This is not bad fashion, but rather a useful (and often the only sane) way for multiple packages to add configuration snippets without stomping on each other and on the local admin's changes. > GRUB isn't an exception. The grub.cfg file is special in that it's generated from other files. Part of the reason is that it lives in /boot and not /etc. > Idiotic for many Debian based distros is, that it could be, that e.g. > audio priorities are set by > > /etc/security/limits-conf and > /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf with different values, at the same > time. There does not seem to be a package in Debian which ships /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf? At least apt-file does not find any. And certainly packages must not touch /etc/security/limits.conf, since that file is owned by libpam-modules. > xorg.conf today often is split too and well, There is no xorg.conf at all by default these days, thankfully. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ppz3rr6t....@turtle.gmx.de