svn commit: r356758 - in head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall: . scripts

[Devin Teske]

> On Jan 16, 2020, at 01:01, Kubilay Kocak <koobs at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On 16/01/2020 7:27 pm, Colin Percival wrote:
>> On 2020-01-15 21:07, Philip Paeps wrote:
>>> On 2020-01-16 04:57:28 (+1000), Oliver Pinter wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, January 15, 2020, Ben Woods <woodsb02 at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>>   bsdinstall: Change "default" (first) Partitioning method to ZFS
>>> 
>>>> Plus I miss from here the relontes tag.
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure if this merits a release notes entry but ... sure.
>>> 
>>> There is not actually a functional change here.  It's just a defaults change.
>> I'd say that a change in defaults is far more deserving of being mentioned
>> in the release notes than, say, adding a new feature.  Nobody will trip over
>> new features by mistake, but there's probably someone out there who is used
>> to holding down the Enter key in the installer and expects to get UFS.
> 
> +1 on changing the default. This doesn't preclude UFS systems or reduce choice (we value choice).
> 
> +0 on tweaking it or setting exceptions if and where necessary, as long as it doesn't result in more than minimal fragmentation between versions/archs/install types: this is also a POLA issue. I don't oin its own consider "4gb systems" as necessary.
> 
> +1 RELNOTES, we value POLA.
> 

-1 on (mentioned somewhere in the thread) dynamic menu items that change based on hardware. Muscle memory is not bad.
— 
Devin