Re: Grub 1.5 error after update

["thveillon.debian" <thveillon.debian@googlemail.com>]

>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Monday 21 September 2009 09:49:39 Frank wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:09 +0200
>> "thveillon.debian" <thveillon.debian@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> The package "os-prober" is taking care of other OS detection, it's
>>> "recommended" but not automatically installed.
>>    Does that mean maintainers assume you only have one installation ?
> 
> Since grub-pc does not *require* os-prober to be installed to function, having 
> the co-installation enforced by the package manager would be inappropriate.
> 
> Recommends relationships are the strongest relationship that is not strictly 
> enforced by the package manager.  In the default configuration aptitude (the 
> recommended package manager) installs Recommends.  The relevant configuration 
> key is Aptitude::Recommends-Important.
> 
> It has been a long time since I used apt-get, but I believe the same is true 
> of it; at the very least a message is shown to the user recommending the 
> installation of os-prober.
> 
> So, the maintainers are assuming that at least one user would like to use 
> GRUB2 without os-prober, which seems a safe assumption.  (I only have one 
> installation on my home PC, so you can count me as that user if you'd like.)

Thanks for the explanation, you read minds better than I do. You're 100%
right, as I said to another person pointing in the same direction
there's really nothing to complain about then (as long it works, of
course...).

Tom