Bug#476349: please provide a '--quiet' option (or similar)

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:43:44AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> [CCing to pkg-grub-devel. I forgot I have unsubscribed from this 
> before and thus had my last mail denied.]
> 
> Joey Hess schrieb:
> > The only way to supress kernel printks to the console is to write to
> > /proc/sys/kernel/printk. It is out of scope for os-proper to do that.
> 
> Allright?
> 
> > I wish that the grub people had talked to us before deciding to use
> > os-prober by default. This looks like an increasingly bad idea.
> 
> Huh, why? Could you please explain your concerns to us?

See #476184.

I didn't expect this would happen.  As I said, will move it to Suggests
untill someone finds a solution to the desktop problem (the printks are a
rather minor issue in comparison).

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Robert Millan

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