Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 29 June 2011 19:50:59 Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 June 2011 15:55:58 Camaleón wrote:
> >> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:02:53 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> >> > On Tuesday 28 June 2011 19:40:15 Camaleón wrote:
> >> >> > If I were the grub maintainer, my first step in dropping grub1 in
> >> >> > Debian would be to make it unavailable from d-i...
> >> >
> >> > So we'll all have to switch to Lilo, which is still maintained.  (Or
> >> > should I say again??)
> >>
> >> Care when quoting... that was not me ;-)
> >
> > Sorry, Camaleón, it indeed wasn't.  It was Tom H.  I apologise.  You
> > appear to me to be arguing on the same side as I am.
>
> I never mentioned LILO so it wasn't me either.

No, _I_ mentioned LILO.  You said:

> >> >> > If I were the grub maintainer, my first step in dropping grub1 in
> >> >> > Debian would be to make it unavailable from d-i...
> >> >

And it was you who said it - it took me a while to thread back thro' the 
slightly complex trimming. 

LILO is being maintained again, so those of us who don't yet want to use GRUB 
2 and are being firmly told that it is almost immoral to want easy access to 
GRUB 1 since it is not being maintained, will obviously have to use LILO. ;-)

And yes, I would exepct to be able to get access to all three if the expert 
install is chosen.  Except...  Except that volunteers will do what they are 
happy to do.  And if you don't like what they do, you just have to do it for 
yourself or pay someone else to do it for you.

So the argument that those who write the installer have a right to decide what 
they put in it is incontrovertible.  But the argument that newbies might have 
trouble with something is a poor excuse for not putting something in the 
expert install.

Lisi