Hi Mike, PS: no longer sending mails both to you and to debian-edu, because I notice that you are subscribed to the list (and so am I)
Mike Gabriel schreef op do 20-11-2025 om 07:23 [+0000]:
> Hi Frans,
>
> On Mi 19 Nov 2025 20:42:49 CET, Frans Spiesschaert wrote:
> > 2. Package kvpm shipped a GUI front end for Linux LVM and Gnu
> > parted.
> > Kvpm depends on the KDE 4 libraries and upstream development
> > stopped by the end of 2016. Upstream sources are still
> > available, though.
> > Debian now ships partitionmanager, a KDE gui
> > file, disk and partition management tool.
> >
> > So I guess it would be good to replace
> > kvpm with patitionmanager as a suggests.
>
> Maybe do this via the education-desktop-<desktop> packages? Because
> for MATE and GNOME we could use gnome-disk(s) which also provides
> that
> feature (LVM etc.).
>
> What do you think of splitting this up and using desktop-near
> utilities?
I looked into it a bit and I found that the desktops
gnome, cinnamon, and lxde depend on
gnome-disk-utility
and that the desktops
lxqt and kde depend on
partitionmanager
So no need for those desktops for any suggests on such a tool
On the other hand the desktops mate and xfce4 have no
disk and partition management tool installed by default
Installing gnome-disk-utility pulls in
5 packages on a mate desktop
and 7 packages on a xfce4 desktop
while installing partitionmanager pulls in
151 packages on both mate and xfce4.
So the conclusion should be
* not to suggest any disk and partition management tool
in education-desktop-other, because all the other
education-desktop* tasks enhance education-desktop-other
* to add a suggests on gnome-disk-utility
in education-desktop-mate and education-desktop-xfce
--
Kind regards,
Frans Spiesschaert
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