I saw a discussion in arch-dev-public mailing list (subject is grub/grub2 final). As that mailing list is read-only, I posted my comments here.
On 06/24/2012 11:10 PM, Ronald van Haren wrote:
Well sure, but grub-bios will be part of the grub group. Won't it automatically replace the grub package with the group in that case?
Ronald
I don't believe that pacman replaces a package with a group. Do we really need a group called grub? What's the use case for that?
I don't think a group called grub is needed. Just try: pacman -Sw java-environment and see the result (you don't really need to install it) It says `There are 2 providers available for java-environment' and want you to make a choice. I wonder if it can be implemented here. And the result will be, when a person types `pacman -S bootloader', it should say, :: There are 4 providers available for bootloader: :: 1: grub2-bios, 2: grub-legacy, 3: syslinux, 4: lilo Sam