On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:02:16PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:24:05AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > - partman > > > Likewise, the plan here is to get it into the installer but with > > > a menu item that makes it non-default (like autopartkit) until > > > we're comfortable with it. Since it meets requirement I., it can > > > go in soon. > > > However, I find its location in the CVS tree quite strange. Why isn't > > it under tools? Seems a pretty minor problem but this needs to be > > fixed, imho. > > > Will we completely drop out fdisks and partitioner or keep it as an > > "expert" option? > > A related question, will the partitioner preferences be decided on a > per-architecture basis? There are special considerations on some > architectures (e.g., BSD disklabels on alpha, GPT on ia64?) that need to > be taken into account before partman can serve as a reasonable default > on all ports. > > I do think that it should soon be able to replace autopartkit > altogether, since autopartkit probably also fails on these ports. :)
Also, this is another point were subarch support is needed. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
