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Re: Partman



On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:05:34PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:33:48 -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> > I know we are really really close to release time, but I'm worried about
> > partman usability.  We talked about some of these issues during debconf4,
> > but I've seen that partman is still the same.

> The problem is that the concept of partman is so difficult to grasp that
> it's hard to make UI changes to it for anyone but Anton Zinoviev...

> It's a well engineered concept, just that maybe there should be a README
> file explaining all of the little directories and files in any given
> partman directory, instead of having to read the entire partman manual in
> doc/... Anton?

I think reading the entire partman manual is strongly advisable for
anyone who's going to be hacking on it.

I say this in hindsight, having only read through it after
aboot-installer was about 80% written, but I nevertheless found it very
enlightening. :-)

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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