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Re: C++ in d-i?



Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:10:43AM +0100, Xavier Oswald wrote:
>> Im thinking of gparted. If the d-i team agreed to have this library in d-i, I
>> would be happy to rework on having gparted working.
>
> Actually, I really don't think that gparted would be the right tool for
> the graphical installer.  Partman has far more capabilities than gparted
> has, for example, the later does not know how to handle multiple disks
> and device layers (RAID, LVM and crypto for what is supported at the
> moment).

Yes, I share this POV too. gparted doesn't look to be the tool we're
looking for.

> I have been toying with the idea of a partman cdebconf plugin for the
> graphical installer for a while now, but I have yet to even sketch a
> prototype.  And I don't think I will have the time soon… :(

Maybe Xavier would like to work on that?

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