On Thursday 02 February 2012 11:59:10 am Dave Howorth wrote:
Jiri Kosina wrote:
Just put/uncomment
multiversion = provides:multiversion(kernel)
in zypp.conf
Personally, I agree with both what Jean and Jiri wrote, and that is how I configure my systems. But I believe it is not the default because the majority school of thought says that it makes life too complicated for non-expert users, since they then have to learn how to and then forever more manually manage the ever-growing number of kernels that are filling their filespace.
So I think Jean may be closer to the requirement, that there should be an explicit change so that the options are 1 - 2 - many rather than just 1 - many, and the default should be 2. Or perhaps the option 1 just shouldn't exist.
I agree that option 2 should exist and be the default. I would not drop option 1 though, as it does make sense if you are low on disk space or are an optimistic, or simply if you have one machine for testing and only deploy the updates on many other similar machine after testing is done. But I also think there is a user-friendliness issue. Displaying 4 to 6 entries in the grub menu might be a little frightening. It would make sense to drop the failsafe entry for the second kernel. It would also be convenient to hide some entries by default to only make the frequent ones visible. Lastly, renaming the entries to something shorter when there is no room for confusion might also be desirable. For example "Desktop -- openSUSE 12.1 - 3.1.9-1.4" doesn't really tell more than just "Linux" or "openSUSE" for many users. Just random ideas anyway, I'm not going to implement anything myself, no time... -- Jean Delvare Suse L3 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org