Re: Custom UEFI layout with /boot/efi, bug 1168118

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On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 18:13 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Adam Williamson <
> adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This seems more appropriate as an anaconda patch than a thread on 
> > test@? I'm not sure what action test@ is expected to take about it.
> 
> I couldn't produce an anaconda patch if my life depended on it, you 
> know that. And bcl already knows how I feel about this ESP UI, and 
> he disagrees [1]. His view is the user using custom partitioning 
> should know what they are doing, even though reality proves this is 
> overwhelmingly false. Users don't know such things, don't want to 
> know such things, and no good reason/advantage is presented for them 
> knowing such things.
> 
> So I'm trying to convince you, because you're the one in this bug 
> producing a significant amount of consideration how to polish what I 
> think amounts to a turd. You can't polish this thing, it just has to 
> be ripped out of the UI on UEFI installations - no bootloader 
> options at all ever. Get rid of it. Nothing good has ever come from 
> this choice. Only frustration for all parties, including QA.

That bug isn't really a design choice bug. It's a hoary codepath bug. 
Your concerns in this mail are fairly orthogonal to the specific 
problem I'm trying to deal with there.

I read other mailing lists, y'know. :) You don't have to send 
something to test@ just to make sure I read it.
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