Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing fdisk with cfdisk in

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org>]

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I think the point is, the docs only explain how to do with fdisk what can also 
be done with cfdisk and cfdisk is easier to use. Might as well explain cfdisk 
and if someone wants to use fdisk, they should already know how anyway.

On Tuesday 19 August 2003 04:18 pm, foser wrote:
> 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
>
>
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