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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] Some suggestings....
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:49:17
Message-Id: 43BA7358.3030207@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-installer] Some suggestings.... by Bryan Quigley
1 Bryan Quigley wrote:
2 >
3 > > Bryan Quigley wrote:
4 > > > On the Partitioning screen, have a before and after.
5 > Especially
6 > > helpful
7 > > > when the user is loading a previously created
8 > profile. (No "after"
9 > > > until changes have been made, aka it appears once there
10 > have been
11 > > changes)
12 > >
13 > > Huh?
14 > >
15 > >
16 > > The After screen will indicate what setup is going to do, the before
17 > > screen indicates what was there before. It gives users a better
18 > > indication on what will be done. If they load a previously created
19 > > setup file, it is not obvious if the creator of the setup file
20 > included
21 > > partitioning information or if they have to set it up themselves.
22 >
23 > I personally will not code it, and I'm the guy that does the
24 > partitioning stuff.
25 > Patches are welcome ;)
26 >
27 >
28 > Would you include it, if I wrote it (assuming I wrote it well, of course)?
29
30 If it was written well and wasn't ugly as sin, I might just consider it :)
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