Anton Zinoviev wrote: > The benefits of the many source packages instead of only one are: 1. It > is easier for the developers to add a new component to partman - they > can simply copy an existing package and change whatever they want. 2. > Different partman packages have separate changelogs and this is usefull. > 3. Different partman packages can have different maintainers. 4. It is > easier to make third party partman-components (partman-md started as > such a package) Hmm, good reasons. I hadn't read Colin's mail as wanting to add a packages/partman/debian and leave the udeb source packages split with the partman-*/debian as-is, but I could have misunderstood it. Don't much like the name partition-manager.deb either FWIW; users seem to know it's called partman somehow. > I haven't used the /usr hierarchy in partman intentionaly. I observed > that many other installers have a simple initrd file system that leaves > /usr alone and then they mount on /usr (from CD) a reacher file system > with X server in order to run the graphical stage of the installer. I > thought that in future we could do the same. Well we have a lot of other stuff in /usr.. -- see shy jo
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