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From: foser <foser@×××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing fdisk with cfdisk in
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:11:53
Message-Id: 1061309939.28350.6.camel@rivendell
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing fdisk with cfdisk in by Svyatogor
1 On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 18:11, Svyatogor wrote:
2 > I've been told that both of them are on LiveCD anyway. So the issue is which
3 > one do we explain in the Installation Guide. Let's look at it this way. Does
4 > cfdisk miss any feature required for installtion? I don't think so. So it
5 > would be much nicer to the user to explain him how to use cfdisk - an easy
6 > tool. If, however, there is work he wonts to do with fdisk - fair enough
7 > noone forbids it.
8
9 I don't think that's a good idea, choice is not always good. Explaining
10 a lot of different ways to achieve the same thing is cluttering the
11 install docs, those are large enough already. Have the fdisk parts of
12 the docs not proven by now they are sufficient ?
13
14 - foser
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