Sysinstall replacement

[Ivan Voras]

Craig Boston wrote:

> I also don't think that ext2 should be offered in the installer, as
> there have been periodic stability problems with it, and new users
> accustomed to Linux may pick it out of habit and get bitten.

I advocate the opposite view: if it doesn't get exposition, it won't be 
fixed.

> P.S. I pretty much never use sysinstall anymore, preferring to set up
> things as gjournal and geli using Fixit mode, then just extract the
> tarballs into the new filesystems.  Having a good standalone
> partitioning tool would be nice though, as doing all the math by hand
> can be tedious.  Any chance that the module that handles that could be
> set up so it's possible to use it independently?

I'll write the backend, if anyone wants to do the frontend, he's welcome 
to it.

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