Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 09:11:52 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Subject: Re: svn commit: r267357 - head/sys/geom/part Message-ID: <20140612161152.GR31367@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <53995119.5040609@FreeBSD.org> References: <201406111019.s5BAJBjW085880@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1406111747320.86394@woozle.rinet.ru> <53995119.5040609@FreeBSD.org>
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Andrey V. Elsukov wrote this message on Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:04 +0400: > On 11.06.2014 17:48, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2014, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > > > >> Author: ae > >> Date: Wed Jun 11 10:19:11 2014 > >> New Revision: 267357 > >> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/267357 > >> > >> Log: > >> Add aliases for DragonFlyBSD's partition types. > > > > These should be documented in sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 also. > > I don't think we should document partition types for all foreign > systems. gpart(8) exists only in FreeBSD and it's purpose manage > partitions in FreeBSD. We already have a lot of NetBSD's and Apple's > aliases that aren't documented, but nobody complained about that. I did... The problem is it's hard for users to complain about stuff not being documented when they don't know to complain about it... I sent direct email to the authors who committed the undocumented work, and one of them (Thanks Dmitry!) did spend the time to fix it... > In this case it is mostly cosmetic change. It allows to see aliases in > the `gpart show` output. Having a lot of partition types documented can > confuse users. IMHO. :) If the user gets confused by this, they probably shouldn't be using the command, or at least reading other docs for help on using them... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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