[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 17460 - viric - in nixos/trunk/modules: . config installer installer/generations-dir installer/grub system/activation

[Ludovic Courtès]

Saluton!  ;-)

Lluís Batlle <viriketo at gmail.com> writes:

> 2009/9/28, Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>:

[...]

>>  Renaming the Grub-related options to boot.loader.grub is not necessarily a bad
>>  idea, but it does break just about every NixOS configuration file :-)  It also
>>  requires the manual and examples to be updated (in particular because of
>>  boot.grubDevice).
>
> I knew about the break... but, could I have done it easier?

How about having a non-colliding name for U-Boot options, and keeping
the current name for GRUB?

It seems GRUB 2 doesn’t work on the SheevaPlug, otherwise we could have
all switched to GRUB 2.

Thanks,
Ludo’.