On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:56:26 +0000 (UTC), prowler_gr--- wrote in
message <1080969119.156056.1750290986224@???>:

> This is true for Devuan, and the patch is easy to re implement in a
> fork for MX-antiX or any other distro that wishes to keep using the
> feature, but the bigger picture is that perfectly working & utilised
> code got taken out from Debian in a whim, to discourage exploring
> alternative init configuration.
>
> The developers have responded to the comment I posted to their
> official gitlab for those in this mailing list who wish to follow
> (bottom section):
>
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/grub-team/grub/-/commit/bdc71248132521f3d0fb506e84b478be349fbcae#57fc750524807a0da244e17a3a27a57bf55ba59d


..interesting. Similar code could be used to set up e.g. laptops
with Nvidea graphics cards with both nouveau, nv, nvidea etc
graphics driver stanzas in the grub menu.
Aaaaand, I also see how that sort of boot loader support could
be abused to justify the creepy systemd mission creep... ;o)
"But grub does it too!!!" XoD


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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.