On Friday 13 July 2007 09:54, Robert Millan wrote: > I'd like to request that the gnu-fdisk and gnu-cfdisk packages be added > to^W^Wkept in the D-I section of the Debian archive. There is a small > use case in which this is useful: > > - You start an install using GPT. > - You manually edit the partition table in one of your disks with > fdisk because you're more confortable with that interface than with > partman or parted. > - Turns out it won't work without GPT support: apt-install gnu-fdisk > gives you a libparted-based fdisk which does. OK, so basically the only reason is that the regular fdisk and cfdisk do not support GPT partition tables? In that case, I think we should _not_ add these udebs, for the following reasons: - we already have parted-udeb, which I expect _does_ support GPT - the new udebs conflict with the fdisk/cfdisk udebs, but udpkg does not support Conflicts: (design decision) - the gnu-cfdisk udeb depends on ncurses, which is not acceptable Conclusion is that there is no real benefit in having these udebs, and a quite a few issues/disadvantages with/of having them. I'd appreciate if you'd request the removal of the udebs yourself. Cheers, FJP
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