Comment # 3 on bug 994322 from Josef Reidinger

(In reply to Steffen Winterfeldt from comment #2)
> Ok, so yast also uses this file to store some settings.
> 
> Why is the file only readable by root, btw? Do we store some sensitive data
> here?

I do not expect sensitive information there.

> 
> Anyway, isn't the idea that in future our standard grub setup is grub into
> mbr of the disk with boot files? It's not that complex, then (unless the
> user changes something).

Well, if there is plan for such change of setup, it should be properly
communicate with customers, so they are aware about such change in proposal as
it also have some drawbacks.

> 
> And if we don't store defaults, the file will be gone in most cases. No?

Yes, if we decide about stable defaults (stable in time), then we can ignore
such file and simply use defaults if it is not there.