Comment # 45 on bug 1226122 from Mario Guzman

There’s more, the executable can be called anything like refind on the
internal, which can be set as a default boot. But on an external or internal
you need to use the option key for, it must be BOOTX64 named, and the machine
will find all of them. That prevents using s/efibootmgr. Requiring a system
paired with an efi partition would be a disaster for me loosing all this
flexibility and ease of recovery. These two machines are for development and so
always serve multiple OSs. I am sure I’m not the only one since I work with the
refind plus developer and know others have similar needs. If Linux needs to
stop using /boot then a standard location should be established that contains
all required boot modules in one place so boot managers like refind can
accommodate them. Just nothing in efi required for booting.

Hope this clears up what I am doing.