> As far as I know there is absolutely no way to have user-setup being > run before partman in the current way the installer is working. Is that actually true anymore? user-setup only touches /target in user-setup-apply; user-setup-ask seems to not need /target at all, and user-setup-udeb doesn't have any special dependencies either. Of course, if something like bug #364526 is implemented, user-setup could come to need a /target to run password checking code, or the like. But for now, it doesn't seem to need it. It seems that it could run user-setup-ask before localechooser, if we really wanted it to. :-) Before partman is certianly a possibility. There are certianly d-i components that need a full /target and/or partitioned system before they can ask their questions. clock-setup, apt-setup, pkgsel, and grub-installer come to mind. However that doesn't seem like a good reason to close this bug out of hand. That said, I don't actually see any benefit from running user-setup before partman, as opposed to before apt-setup. In either case it's running as part of a block of questions that all happen quite close together with minimal wait time for the user. -- see shy jo
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