[gentoo-user] Grub2 and use-flags

2010-06-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm running grub 2 it seems. I don't know when that started, or what difference it makes compared to legacy grub. I guess I don't need to know. But a recent post had me looking at use-flags, and I was a bit surprised to find (ncurses -static). If this refers to the part of grub that I run when s

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and use-flags

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/18/2010 08:17 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm running grub 2 it seems. I don't know when that started, or what > difference it makes compared to legacy grub. I guess I don't need to > know. But a recent post had me looking at use-flags, and I was a bit > surprised to find (ncurses -static)

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and use-flags

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 18 June 2010 16:17:12 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm running grub 2 it seems. I don't know when that started, or what > difference it makes compared to legacy grub. I guess I don't need to > know. But a recent post had me looking at use-flags, and I was a bit > surprised to find (ncurses -

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and use-flags

2010-06-18 Thread Vaeth
> I'm running grub 2 it seems No. You are running grub 0.97-r9 (which is a legacy grub): Don't be confused by the description in eix: eix knows only one description per package (not one per version), and it takes this description from the version with the highest version number (which is grub 2).

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and use-flags

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 18 June 2010 19:05:17 Vaeth wrote: > > I'm running grub 2 it seems > > No. You are running grub 0.97-r9 (which is a legacy grub): > Don't be confused by the description in eix: > eix knows only one description per package (not one per version), > and it takes this description from the ve