Re: [info] grub2

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Paul E Condon wrote:
Tom H wrote:
Paul E Condon wrote:
Tom H wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
This is the same url as the previous (grub1) manual, so as far as gnu is
concerned, there must only be one grub...

How bad! :-(

They have moved on.  It doesn't benefit the upstream to keep two
versions active.  For better or for worse this is mostly how all
upstreams work.

There are still people using Grub legacy and online manual is very useful
(i.e., for pointing someone to a specific paragraph or give it a quick
review).

True.  But you can always quote the parts to which you are referring.

The first has the following at the top:
'You can browse the documentation of GNU GRUB by "info grub" on your
shell prompt (or use your favorite Info browser, if you don't like
info).'

Strange decision...

Why is that strange?  The official documentation for GNU projects is
texinfo documentation.  It has been this way for a very long time.

It is strange because it would have been easy and wold not have been
taxing to have a
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grublegacy.html
page for those people who need to consult or refer others to
grub-legacy's manual online.

Furthermore, many distributions default to grub1, Debian Stable,
Fedora, RHEL and its clones (in the latter case, probably until 2014
for RHEL 5 and, since RHEL 6 is based on F12/F13, probably until 2017
for RHEL 6).


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