* Philip Blundell
| On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 00:58, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > in order to get debian-installer into working shape, it is obvious
| > that the user has some way to partition the hard drive. An
| > auto-partitioner will probably only need debconf as it's UI. However,
| > manual partitioning using debconf will be very painful. Developing a
| > debconf partitioning widget might be a little overkill, so I am not
| > sure how we want to solve this challenge.
| >
| > Does anybody have a suggestion on how to solve this problem?
(please respect my M-F-T)
| How about writing a handful of frontends for libparted, so that we have
| one similar in style to each debconf frontend? Do we think that parted
| will be stable enough to use as the sole partitioning program for a
| debian-installer based release?
I've still had parted segfault on me -- a partitioner must absolutely
not do that. I am Cc-ing the parted package maintainer so he can
voice his opinion.
Apart from it segfaulting occasionally and having a semi-horrible API,
it should be ok-ish. :)
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