Add Gparted into Live's

[Hedayat Vatankhah]

/*Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org>*/ wrote on Fri, 08 Aug 2014 
19:07:11 -0500:
> On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 02:33 +0430, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:
>> GParted provides a number of essential features users might need, some
>> of which are not provided even by any command line tools in Fedora
>> repositories: resizing and moving partitions/filesystems. And
>> something like resizing FAT partitions is what I have not seen in any
>> other tools in Fedora repositories except kde-partitionmanager.
>> Anaconda provides resizing facility, but not move. Also, I'm not sure
>> if Anaconda can resize FAT partitions.
> Hi Hedayat,
>
> gparted should not be included because it's an advanced tool for
> technical users, whereas Fedora Workstation needs to contain only tools
> that are easy for everyone to use. Keep in mind that programs included
> in the live image will also wind up on the installed system.
>
> Michael
>
I actually don't insist on including gparted itself, but some of its 
features. Having a second thought, I think it is actually better to add 
such missing features to Anaconda itself, so it would benefit 
installation media too.

I didn't talk about GParted just because it is "useful". I talked about 
it since sometimes it is "needed for successful installation". Yes, if 
you already have installed any kind of GNU/Linux OS, you would rarely 
need to resize/move any partitions. But I've seen this being needed for 
many 'first time' installs.

Well, as I said, I think missing features should be added to Anaconda, 
rather than including gparted in live media. You might say moving 
partitions is 'too much' for Anaconda, but IMHO resizing FAT partitions 
isn't (unless you think that Anaconda should remove the ability to 
shrink NTFS partitions too!).

Regards,
Hedayat



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