On Tue, 2005-12-04 at 16:37 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:03 -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) > > Has been for a while. > > > and that disk druid > > be the partition editor of choice (far prettier and easier to use > > than sfdisk! :) > > Disk Druid is a front end part of anaconda. A long time ago (RHL 7.2?) > it used fdisk in the backend to do the partition work. Since 7.3 or > even earlier, disk druid has used parted to do all the partitioning > work. This hasn't changed for many releases. > > > 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"? > > > > As I said, Lilo has been deprecated since RHL8 or even earlier. But optional until FC2.