On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 03:44:51PM -0800, Mark Logan wrote: > Sebastien Roy wrote: > >You probably want something other than Volatile if this is meant to be > >used programatically by other software subsystems. > > > > I see your point, but isn't the rule 3rd party source == volatile?
Not really. Some FOSS is Volatile, some is Committed. It all depends on how volatile the FOSS's interfaces are, how frequent their major releases, and how willing you are to deal with shipping and supporting multiple versions should you go with something better than Volatile and should the upstream community make a backwards-incompatible release that we need to update to. If parted is for interactive use, then Volatile will do. If it's for scripting, then Volatile is annoying, and if parted is truly valuable then we can add value by going with Uncommitted. Your call. Nico --
