Package: partman-auto Severity: normal In all of the recent discussions about separate /usr partitions, most people seem to acknowledge them as unusual, special-purpose configurations, even those who use them. To the extent they have a use at all, they primarily have a use for people who have very specific reasons for wanting them, and all of those people will know how to handle partitioning. To a lesser extent, that holds true for having separate partitions for /var, /tmp, or other top-level directories. It seems likely that any such setup will have custom requirements.
Meanwhile, we don't want to steer any new users towards a setup with a pile of different partitions, which makes their system more complex with more potential failure modes. In the most recent thread, I noticed that someone mentioned they primarily chose a setup with a separate /usr partition because the installer offered such a setup as one of the standard guided partitioning options. Please consider removing the option in the guided partitioner for separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; that would leave only the "All files in one partition" and "Separate /home partition" setups, both of which potentially make sense for users of the guided partitioner. Anyone desiring a setup with more separate partitions should have no trouble using the manual partitioner to create whatever custom configuration they desire. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111215204633.4096.81498.reportbug@leaf
