update-grub and kopt / groot lines

[Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy]

While I understand the reluctance to change this, since this is legacy 
Debian way of doing things, I think the complaint is valid. The current 
implementation is subverting the meaning of comment syntax. Everywhere 
you look # means that anything after it doesn't affect the 
configuration, where in menu.lst the situation is effectively reversed 
and confused. Anything uncommented will work right away, but will be 
overwritten on the next kernel update, but anything commented will not 
be active, but will suddenly activate after the next kernel update. This 
is the same awful syntax subversion that red hat's chkconfig is using 
(they are using comments in the service control scripts for service 
specific settings). I would suggest either making a separate config file 
in /etc or taking FreeBSD /etc/default schema, and comparing template 
menu file in /etc/default with the actual file (possibly hand edited) in 
the /boot/grub and merging the changes keeping hand edited info.

Florian Zeitz wrote:
> This behaviour is intended and competeley sane IMHO.