-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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.
>> 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. >> 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. >> 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTqwp8AAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwhYsH/00j0500OF7ItHiwtFlLrQVz qyKw+fbjEr3YpesLza9x9ov2T8Peh6Z1sQVFc6RqZwl5KtfF7Tf4lWJ2ktmpzW7q qQMe/5njOd0Z0p68WOYPjz5kQU6Bsn6KqGgkSadDwISo+pLfeRazmGPmGKZTJ60B PCDK4ksT8DU3rbn5446mqpAJuWOGTn+R5ijdkCxYVJG6aKild7vc1aEXOW7gkzFF 8R5xREB+RE//LY5eEtms2++xXej107hkS1Jv/bIaNBGuqrFQGjfjOPxmo0Ag9tP8 AM6pGZyxniGJgWg8S7kL6mGi13jK8j/JhQejpEp5DXEJf2osHUFP0lK0qkogjFM= =9o/P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel