Bug#202562: yaboot-installer partition description
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 08:26, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> * Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch> [2003-09-24 01:44]:
> | On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 09:58, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> | > Would it not be better to display the extended info, and strip it away
> | > before passing it to yabootconfig?
> | I was looking into this today and noticed that I could make use of the
> | logic in partconf/find-parts.c. Is it possible to move everything of
> | function get_all_partations and its "dependencies" to
> | libdebian-installer? Probably it could be useful to other things.
>
> that's an very old plan from me, because many programs needs this
> function to find partition.
>
> But Marvin will not blow up the libdebian-installer library, because it
> is required on the first stage. Maybe we can do something here?
isn't the code stripped out by mklibs anyway if its not used?
Probably we should have two version libdebian-installer and
libdebian-installer-full.
Code duplication in every program that deals with partitions, is much
worse IMHO.
bye
gaudenz
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