[Nix-dev] Re: Grub2 For EFI-based Systems

[Shea Levy]

On 3/8/11 5:07 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Thanks for the patch.
>
> Shea Levy<shea at shealevy.com>  writes:
>
>> This patch provides a nixpkg called grub2efi that results in a grub2
>> targeted at systems that use a UEFI for booting.
> In principle Nixpkgs should only refer to release tarballs, so as to let
> upstream do its work.
>
I'm a bit confused about this. Why do tools like fetchbzr exist if this 
is the case?
> For GRUB, we could upgrade to 1.99~rc1, or just wait for 1.99, which
> will provide what you want.  How would that work for you?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
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