On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 20:23 -0500, Jasper Hartline wrote:
> You blatantly ignore the fact that we need such a tool anyway.
Only
> giving the users UI for for LVM / RAID setup in the installer is just
> weird. Btw, the reason I'm writing this tool has nothing to do with Live
> CD's - it's something we're working together on in upstream projects
> like
freedesktop.org, GNOME and KDE to do anyway.
>
Yes, but it doesn't exist yet. This is the point you're missing.
It will. It's sometimes good in software design to take a few steps back
and look at the bigger picture.
> Of course it is. You make the users download the bits twice and
makes it
> impossible to deliver an usable live CD in 700 MB.
>
The only bits you'd have downloaded was the LiveCD.
There is no duplication of downloading of material in this use case.
If I'm overlooking your point or where there is some duplicity please
inform me.
The live cd contains the installed bits already, e.g. for example all
the X.org stuff, the GNOME stuff, /bin/bash or whatever is already
available and can be copied over to the hard disk.
David