Hello, On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:03:02PM -0700, Dana Lacoste wrote: > if redhat (this is a core issue, they control core) is desiring that > lilo be phased out (not a bad idea in itself) and that disk druid > be the partition editor of choice (far prettier and easier to use > than sfdisk! :) and that other tools that used to work but suck > in comparison to modern tools be eliminated, then can we at least > make a "deprecated" list and say "these tools will be eliminated from > the final distribution [once the test releases are done] so if you > need them can you let us know so we can work out the bugs in the tools > we want to use instead"? You mean like the listing lilo among the deprecated packages in http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86/, http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc2/x86/, http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES.html http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/release-notes/x86/ http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/release-notes/x86/ ? Removing tools _after_ test releases doesn't make sense - people would be still relying on them and wouldn't testing the new tools. Now is the time to try the tools that are available and "let us know" by filing an useful bug report in bugzilla. Mirek "I have seen a lot of 'bug reports' but not a single bugzilla reference" Trmac