<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.5.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 11:05 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:58:27PM -0500, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > Listen to yourself, what you are saying is anacron is not needed in Base > because it is only for desktops, but LVM is OK in Base because it is > only for servers. Read the explanations of the seed lists on <A HREF="http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/SeedManagement">http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/SeedManagement</A>, and this should make more sense. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> OK, lets do the devil's advocate dance :) Here is an excerpt from the wiki page you mentioned: <BLOCKQUOTE> Packages in base should be: </BLOCKQUOTE> <UL> <BLOCKQUOTE> absolutely stable, standard tools that we think will be around forever and we are prepared to maintain even if the whole world moves on useful diagnostic tools that one can use to get the system and network up and running, and are valuable to have "always there" in case of need widely applicable (in the Greatest Common Factor sense, not Lowest Common Denominator) to every installation, desktop or server </BLOCKQUOTE> </UL> 1. LVM is by no means a standard tool, not one major distribution partitions a system with LVM by default and out of several big install bases I have seen nobody used it (people in need of large quantities of dynamic storage generally prefer hardware based solutions). These things considered I would not call LVM stable. Also, the "whole world" as represented by kernel developers seems to be moving towards EVMS even as we speak :) 2. Unless a system is pre-partitioned using LVM there is no reason for it to be "always there in case of need". 3. LVM can hardly be called "widely applicable" for a desktop system, and for that matter for a server system (see argument #1) But than again it is just me :) </BODY> </HTML>