On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2018-04-26 at 11:05 -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, James Bottomley wrote: > [...] > > > Perhaps find out beforehand instead of insisting on an approach > > without > > > knowing.  On openSUSE the grub config is built from the files in > > > /etc/grub.d/ so any package can add a kernel option (and various > > > conditions around activating it) simply by adding a new file. > > > > And then, different versions of the debug kernel will clash when  > > attempting to create the same file. > > Don't be silly ... there are many ways of coping with that in rpm/dpkg. I know you can deal with it - but how many lines of code will that consume? Multiplied by the total number of rpm-based distros. Mikulas