From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25357 invoked by uid 1002); 19 Aug 2003 16:11:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 32398 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2003 16:11:53 -0000 From: foser To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200308191911.33863.svyatogor@gentoo.org> References: <20030819112719.3ff4da41.svyatogor@gentoo.org> <20030819081901.GA13652@cerberus.oppresses.us> <008401c36666$a20c5380$1401a8c0@punx> <200308191911.33863.svyatogor@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1061309939.28350.6.camel@rivendell> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:18:59 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing fdisk with cfdisk in X-Archives-Salt: 55139742-5b39-4425-a258-1a63876b4ba7 X-Archives-Hash: d9449690d6e927aaf20382f4f2f081b4 On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 18:11, Svyatogor wrote: > I've been told that both of them are on LiveCD anyway. So the issue is which > one do we explain in the Installation Guide. Let's look at it this way. Does > cfdisk miss any feature required for installtion? I don't think so. So it > would be much nicer to the user to explain him how to use cfdisk - an easy > tool. If, however, there is work he wonts to do with fdisk - fair enough > noone forbids it. I don't think that's a good idea, choice is not always good. Explaining a lot of different ways to achieve the same thing is cluttering the install docs, those are large enough already. Have the fdisk parts of the docs not proven by now they are sufficient ? - foser -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list