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Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform.

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From: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>,Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
Cc: 34184 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc
 platform.
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 08:41:25 +0100

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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> skrev: (23 januari 2019 23:27:26 CET)
>
>Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu> writes:
>
>> Le 23 janvier 2019 22:12:58 GMT+01:00, swedebugia
><swedebugia <at> riseup.net> a écrit :
>>>"Installing for i386-pc platform.
>>>Installation finished. No error reported."
>>>
>>>After reboot:
>>>  $ uname -a
>>>Linux komputilo 4.20.3-gnu #1 SMP 1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>>The i386 is technically incorrect according to
>>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386 and
>>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
>>>
>>>I think we should drop the line and keep "Installation finished. No
>>>error reported."
>>
>> Hi, this message is actually from grub-install and is perfectly
>> correct: it means it's intalling in legacy (bios) mode. "No error
>> reported" is also from grub and is very confusing…
>
>Maybe we should
>
>1) prefix messages from other tools with the name of the tool, and
>2) hide these tool messages by default behind descriptive messages like
>“installing bootloader”
>
>What do you think?
>
>--
>Ricardo

+1 😃
-- 
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