On 05/31/2012 03:03 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Because maintaining the boot portion of the system shouldn't
automatically create a position to make fundamental decisions like
this. The authors of Fedora packages also don't normally spend large
amounts of time in consultation with Redhat legal, Microsoft,
consortiums, etc.
I assure you, if you're maintaining linux's ability to work with things
like UEFI (as Matthew and I do), ACPI (as Matthew does), and other industry
standards relating to booting the system and hardware support, this is very
much how you wind up spending large chunks of your week.
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Peter