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

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Lluís Batlle wrote:

>> Yes, it's probably best to revert to the old option names for now, and if
>>  Nicolas implements support for option renaming, we can rename it again to the
>>  new ones.
> 
> It isn't that it hasn't happened before - options got renamed.

Yes, and it causes breakage each time :-)  So that's why we need a way to easily
support the old option names when doing a rename, like Nicolas suggested.

> Don't you like more the new names?

Yes, I do prefer boot.loader.grub.  But in this case it causes a *lot* of
breakage, since just about every NixOS configuration file contains at least a
boot.grubDevice option.

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Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/