On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:21:06PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 13 July 2007 09:54, Robert Millan wrote: > > I'd like to request that the gnu-fdisk and gnu-cfdisk packages be added > > to^W^Wkept in the D-I section of the Debian archive. There is a small > > use case in which this is useful: > > > > - You start an install using GPT. > > - You manually edit the partition table in one of your disks with > > fdisk because you're more confortable with that interface than with > > partman or parted. > > - Turns out it won't work without GPT support: apt-install gnu-fdisk > > gives you a libparted-based fdisk which does. > > OK, so basically the only reason is that the regular fdisk and cfdisk do > not support GPT partition tables?
Yes (for me, that is). > - we already have parted-udeb, which I expect _does_ support GPT In my use case, the person who was installing had to call me because he had to edit a GPT disk and didn't know how to handle parted. With my proposed solution, I would have told him to "apt-install gnu-fdisk"; but instead I had to do all the partitioning myself. > - the new udebs conflict with the fdisk/cfdisk udebs, but udpkg does not > support Conflicts: (design decision) We can rename the binaries and drop the Conflicts. If we rename fdisk to fdisk-gnu rather than gnu-fdisk, it'll even make shell expansion work. > - the gnu-cfdisk udeb depends on ncurses, which is not acceptable In that case we could provide gnu-fdisk only. But why is ncurses not acceptable? If it's a size issue, note that our typical use case has at least one >2 TiB disk, so we should expect it to be able to spare a few hundred kiBs of memory for ncurses (when user wants to, not by default!) -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
