From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.90_1) id 1l3bIi-0006s8-7D for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 04:03:16 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57180) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l3bIg-0006s2-En for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 04:03:14 -0500 Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.66]:33377) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l3bId-00053X-Q1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 04:03:14 -0500 Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.94) with esmtps (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from ) id 1l3bIa-0021k5-OZ; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 10:03:08 +0100 Received: from p5b13a61e.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([91.19.166.30] helo=[192.168.178.139]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.94) with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (envelope-from ) id 1l3bIa-000G9v-5H; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 10:03:08 +0100 Subject: Re: need hostname on menu To: Humphrey van Polanen Petel Cc: The development of GNU GRUB References: <968fe2d7-e30f-7c50-e425-9366553d4508@optusnet.com.au> <68ad9bf5-e814-5e28-8e87-bd67241574fe@physik.fu-berlin.de> <4b096da9-39c5-c74a-1e02-d517970d231c@optusnet.com.au> From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Message-ID: <5e160f2b-ea30-f8f6-14fc-3a7b963681bf@physik.fu-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 10:03:06 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4b096da9-39c5-c74a-1e02-d517970d231c@optusnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Original-Sender: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de X-Originating-IP: 91.19.166.30 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=130.133.4.66; envelope-from=glaubitz@zedat.fu-berlin.de; helo=outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de X-Spam_score_int: -41 X-Spam_score: -4.2 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.2 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 09:03:14 -0000 Hello! On 1/24/21 4:32 AM, Humphrey van Polanen Petel wrote: > Whether it is a trivial problem or not I am not qualified to comment on, but it > nevertheless seems to me that being able to identify at boot a systemby the name > by which it is know is of obvious benefit simply because mnemonics are most easily > remembered. I was not arguing this point. I was just talking about the development and maintenance effort. > And if you wish to call this a "rather exotic problem" then I would like to point out > that it is not up to the developers, but to the users to determine how they use their > system. No developer is telling you how to use the software, that's not my point but that someone has to implement the feature and maintain it and that person is the developer. So while the developer does not get to tell you how you use the software, he decides what he works on and what not. And if there is a feature that is requested by only a very small amount of users, then it usually makes no sense to put up with the additional development and maintenance burden. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913