Re: beta 2 and beyond

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

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