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Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 22:02:41 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 06:15:43PM +0100, phcoder wrote:
> I personally see following features still missing from grub2 comparing  
> to grub1:
> -network

Notice that in the GRUB Legacy shipped by Debian, network is disabled anyway
(without module support, you can't ship a prebuilt image that supports all
drivers).

> -simple partition manipulation
> I started a design discussion about this subject but nobody seems to be  
> interested. If I receive no further replies I suppose that my  
> proposition with "parttool" in "Re: [PATCH] make partition active" is ok  
> and implement it

This is nice, but not an essential feature when it comes to Debian.

> -map hook

Same here.

> -setkey
> I've seen that someone already started keymap support

Yep, and gettext too.  Both are really nice, but I don't think they're
essential for Debian users either.

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."




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