On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:03:11AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 02:17:37AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > > 3) Get rid of the autopartition alltogether. Its severly broken for
> > > anything but "I'm such a stupid user but I only want one linux", which
> > > kind of excludes itself. People not able to partition themself usually
> > > want to keep their windows.

> > You seem to be rather arrogantly overlooking the "I have five of these
> > machines to build this week and partitions are so far down on my list of
> > things to configure that I'll scream if I have to see cfdisk one more
> > time" group.  This is not a question of not being able to partition,
> > it's a question of by-hand partitioning being a waste of time for a
> > sizable number of users.

> > With appropriate warnings about the destructive nature of partitioning,
> > I believe the autopartitioner will be very useful.

> They would probably have empty harddisks to begin with.

> The partitioner would pop up suggesting the partitions the
> autopartitioner would create now and their mountpoints and they only
> have to select "finish" or "save changes".

> I would like to see the partitions suggested and adjustable by the
> user instead on forcing it on him. This step realy destroys data so
> the user should be aware of every partiton thats going to be destroyed
> and what replaces them.

That defeats the purpose of an *auto*partitioner.  We already have an
interface that does what you describe; it's the one that's universally
regarded as newbie-hostile and generally tedious.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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