Parted - GNU Partition Editor [PSARC/2009/145 FastTrack timeout 03/06/2009]

[Mark Phalan]

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 08:56 -0800, Mark Logan wrote:
> James Carlson wrote: 
> > Garrett D'Amore writes:
> >   
> > > I don't know about savings of effort, but if we're not making them 
> > > public interfaces, then I prefer them in /usr/lib/parted, where folks 
> > > are less likely to find them by "accident" and infer (possibly false) 
> > > things about their suitability for public use.
> > > 
> > > That said, I'd hope that if we ever shipped the public ones, that this 
> > > project could be converted to use the public ones instead of keeping its 
> > > own private copies.
> > >     
> > 
> > There are some questions behind what I'm asking.  If these are hacked
> > versions of those utilities, then I'd like to understand how we will
> > deal with the 1991/061 rules.  If they're not hacked, then I'm a
> > little puzzled on why they're buried.  It's not as if this project
> > team appears to want to promise a great deal of stability for parted
> > itself (they're saying "Volatile," so it can't be used easily within
> > the installer), so I don't understand drawing the "support" line at
> > parted itself and excepting away ntfsprogs.  What support?
> > 
> >   
> 
> I only buried ntfsprogs because I thought it would be easier to make
> it through PSARC that way. I guess I miscalculated. I did not hack
> ntfsprogs at all, it was the easiest thing to port. I have no problem
> delivering ntfsprogs in its entirety and in /usr/bin, if that is the
> consensus.

+1 from me.

-M