From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Non-graphical GRUB configuration Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 10:39:33 +0200 Message-ID: <8760ilsx4q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170331125956.rhlwjg45vwo3pgwh@abyayala> <20170331234321.GA10435@jasmine> <20170401072740.kgzz3zbtikn5hpg5@abyayala> <20170401202901.GA10480@jasmine> <86vaqmwz3c.fsf@gmail.com> <20170402210620.GA26945@jasmine> <20170402221332.GA8244@jasmine> <86zifymivo.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cuxWV-0007dG-NX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Apr 2017 04:39:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cuxWS-0005rl-NS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Apr 2017 04:39:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <86zifymivo.fsf@gmail.com> (myglc2@gmail.com's message of "Sun, 02 Apr 2017 20:31:39 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: myglc2 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org myglc2 skribis: > On 04/02/2017 at 22:13 Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 05:06:20PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: >>> Based on the GRUB manual [0], how about this plan? >>> >>> We'd add these fields to (grub-configuration): >> >> [...] >> >> NixOS has the user provide a string: >> >> https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/options.html#opt-boot.loader.grub.extraCo= nfig >> >> It is much simpler than my plan... > > I agree this is also workable. It actually is more flexible since it > allows access to all grub config features. > > If you go this way, the guix doc should point the user to the relevant > grub doc. Since one needs to install grub in order to read the grub doc > in guix, it might be helpful for the guix doc to mention that as well. Agreed. I=E2=80=99m fine either way, but an escape hatch like this is always going = to be useful so it can=E2=80=99t hurt. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.