Dave Miner wrote:
>> I agree - I am just thinking, if it is fine in general to allow
>> normal non-experienced user (who is the target audience for Slim
>> installer) to run system without swap. To be honest, I don't know,
>> since I am not very experienced in this area.
>> If people agree that this is not issue at all, I don't have any
>> objections against making swap optional.
>>
>
> Now that we don't have to reserve slices for it, making swap optional in 
> the space calculation is fine.  We don't place any lower limits on 
> memory, and it's just virtual memory, after all.  Besides which, we can 
> infer that the system works well enough for the user's purposes without 
> swap since the boot from the CD won't have used any swap.

That is a good point. Based on this and also on Jeff's comment
I will make swap optional as well.

Thank you,
Jan

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