Re: util-linux switch from slang to ncurses

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

25.02.2011 18:27, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> [110225 15:10]:
>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:56:42PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>>> 25.02.2011 16:53, Bastian Blank wrote:
>>>>>> In the long term, we may just drop it.
>>>>> Is it used now?
>>>> So what?
>>> So that's a valid point, thanks!
>>
>> It is only used on some mips for some weird disklabel format. Everything
>> else uses partman.
> 
> It's nice to have some alternative if partman is not working. Having
> fdisk as udeb saved me multiple times. But I guess fdisk suffices and
> it seems only cfdisk needs slang.

I thought the statement ("we may just drop it")
was about slang, not cfdisk! ;)  At least I never
questioned the need for cfdisk.

Thanks!

/mjt