On 2014-02-22 20:57 (GMT-0700) Chris Murphy composed:
there's sufficient duplicative effort between then openSUSE and Fedora installers when it comes to ninja partitioning I'm not really understanding why they don't share an upstream project.
YaST2 is traditionally one of the top 2 things that keeps openSUSE users openSUSE users, a long way off from branching out to become a project independent its SUSE heritage.
YaST is YaST, not an installer. What it does as an installer is a (major) byproduct of what it is, a comprehensive user friendly configuration UI (Yet Another Setup Tool, v2, on its way to becoming v3...).
And why they prevent their users from leveraging these capabilities to create storage outside of an OS install context, and for making modifications to existing storage. They aren't as pretty as gparted, but do a lot more. It's a lot of wheels being reinvented.
I'm pretty sure the YaST partitioner is *parted working underneath its GTK/QT personalities.
Last year YaST2 began the long process of refactoring from its original language to Ruby, in part in order to to attract more "outsiders" to participate in its maintenance and evolution, but also to more easily import and export the many components that make it what it is.
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