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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Flavien Bridault <f.bridault AT fra.net>:
> Hi folks,
>
> Andrew recently highlighted a problem in current grub spell [0]. The
> user is prompted in FINAL to determine if he wants or not to
> edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
> First thing, it should not be done in FINAL. But that's not why I bring
> this bug to you.
> The problem is that the prompt is made with a config_query. Andrew
> argued that this is really annoying because one doesn't want to store
> this setting. If one wants to edit it one time, and then do not edit,
> the user has to cast -r -c, which is quite long especially with this
> spell ;-)
> A simple query would solve the problem, and that is what is was done
> primarily. But I recently changed that according to our holy roadmap ;-)
> [1] where it is said that :
>
> "All spells use config_query instead of query and/or read"
>
> So, can I make a exception for this stuff or not ??
>
> Any thoughts ?? :-)

There are exceptions to any rule. ;) I believe the "All spells use 
config_query
instead of query and/or read" should probably be re-worded to say, "All spells
that need to remember the answer should use config_query instead of query
and/or read"

-sandalle

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