Josh Triplett wrote: > Exactly my point, then. The guided partitioning option I mentioned > makes /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp all separate partitions. You just > said you don't want a separate /home, and you do want a separate /var. > Thus, you have custom requirements that don't fit the guided option, and > you'd need to use the manual partitioner instead. I argue that the same > holds true for almost anyone who might want something similar to that > guided option: they don't actually want what the guided option provides. That's not how d-i's partitioner works. You can select a recipe and then modify the partition scheme it generates to meet your exact needs. > Keep in mind that the installer used to ask several times as many > questions as it does now. Debian has managed to improve it drastically, > and in doing so removed some choices that I'd bet a non-zero number of > people in the universe cared about. As a net result, the installer now > proves simpler and easier to deal with for everyone. And one of those question removal processes involved coming up with the current list where the user choses from some common recipes, or chooses to fully manually partition. Since we *have* to ask a question that provides that last option, providing the other options is free from a number of questions POV. -- see shy jo
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