<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:標楷體, dfkai-sb;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508613636979_11179" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508613636979_11301">This is a nice answer. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508613636979_11179" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508613636979_11314">At this time I'm busy in another package, but I need this feature so it will be my next task. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508613636979_11179" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508613636979_11316">Can I work from the current repository and then send the patches?</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: 標楷體, dfkai-sb; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> Il Mercoledì 18 Ottobre 2017 14:45, Phil Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> ha scritto:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div dir="ltr">On 10/17/2017 5:33 PM, Kristian - wrote:<div class="yqt9291688131" id="yqtfd62712"><br clear="none">> I agree with you Phil, parted should hide complexity to the user. But<br clear="none">> I don't think this information is useless for all users, or better<br clear="none">> speaking: for all library front end's. I see that parted does not<br clear="none">> display this information, and maybe it is not interested in. Anyway,<br clear="none">> this information is stored in the partition table but, using<br clear="none">> libparted, we can't read or modify it without extremely crappy<br clear="none">> trick's. Other partitioning programs let the user view and change<br clear="none">> this field. Why programs using libparted shouldn't offer this<br clear="none">> functionality?</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">I think that historically libparted was designed to try to provide a<br clear="none">common unified api for all partition table types, and partition type<br clear="none">codes are highly partition table specific. If someone wanted to add a<br clear="none">new interface to allow passing an arbitrary string to be interpreted by<br clear="none">the specific partition table as some kind of appropriate type code, I<br clear="none">would not be opposed to it.<div class="yqt9291688131" id="yqtfd46957"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>