For the time being, it is absolutely necessary to format from the point
of view of supportability; we cannot support a mutant system that
started out as something else and then had Ubuntu's files just dropped
over the top of it without cleaning out what was there before. Perhaps
in the future we'll figure out a way to have ubiquity wipe out
everything but /home.
Sadly, creating a /home partition can't be the default either, because
that means you have to dump the decision of what relative partition
sizes to use onto the user, and considering that our partition resizing
tools really aren't smooth enough to be foisted on ordinary users who
make a mistake in this decision I do not believe that this is
appropriate.
** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: ubuntu-meta => ubiquity
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed
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Unable to install without format
https://launchpad.net/bugs/72897
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