From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14735 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Aug 2003 01:16:35 -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 20517 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2003 01:16:35 -0000 From: Luke-Jr Organization: Gentoo Linux To: foser , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:16:25 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030819112719.3ff4da41.svyatogor@gentoo.org> <200308191911.33863.svyatogor@gentoo.org> <1061309939.28350.6.camel@rivendell> In-Reply-To: <1061309939.28350.6.camel@rivendell> GPG-Public-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="shift_jis" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308200116.33551.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing fdisk with cfdisk in X-Archives-Salt: 0f49f6bf-e628-489c-b41c-f48b1e8f0788 X-Archives-Hash: adef538603c90edc9ff45fe7a2b44383 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think the point is, the docs only explain how to do with fdisk what can a= lso=20 be done with cfdisk and cfdisk is easier to use. Might as well explain cfdi= sk=20 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 thi= nk > > 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 =2D --=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/QsvtZl/BHdU+lYMRAnlkAJ9weBBk1E50ABOmqTK3KScvtALtowCgixz/ 370N5KnMN5k+QsXqBeuUpe8=3D =3DUr5C =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list