Re: var=foo should be valid?

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:39:50AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> I would appreciate it if we left it as it is now. It is not
> intrinsically bad to have both, and GRUB 2 is already deployed in
> production so it's quite likely that people will in fact be using both
> syntaxes. (Indeed, the configuration file I'm delivering by default in
> Ubuntu 9.10 uses both syntaxes! I should probably normalise that but I
> simply hadn't thought about it as being any kind of problem.) We should
> not break production installations when there is no reason to do so.

Don't worry, we can't promise we'll stick to an interface forever, but
we're careful not to break existing setups.

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Robert Millan

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