Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode
On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 14:29:31 -0600
David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>
> This thread seems to have gone down a rabbit-hole.
>
> $ aptitude why os-prober
> i grub-common Recommends os-prober (>= 1.33)
> $
>
> It has stretched the minds of people here to work out how to
> make the d-i /avoid/ installing Recommends, so I can't see
> why this would suddenly happen to a casual newcomer.
>
To be fair, it's four or five weeks since I last used an installer, and
I certainly got os-prober then. But a few days ago, os-prober was
disabled in that very installation after an upgrade. I can therefore
easily believe that it could now be omitted on installation. Someone
important considers it unnecessary.
Again, there was a changelog mentioning this and saying how to work
around it, but I feel that a Debian upgrade should not simply disable a
piece of necessary and regularly-used software without at least asking
the user first.
--
Joe
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