Comment 25 for bug 766265

Thought I should add a comment here. I'm really torn about this, first of all take into consideration that I'm now quite used to the behavior and since it's expected my personal opinion becomes biased. Recent improvements in the explanatory text tends to make me think we're OK in most common installation scenarios, but certainly the test cases in posts #9 and #21 still exist.

Also if someone has free space available on an existing drive and installs another blank drive smaller than the available free space on that existing drive, then selecting "install alongside" would end up installed in the wrong free space, but personally I think anyone with multiple drives should use the manual install (something else) option. Is it possible to make the installer truly foolproof?

At this point I feel that my personal opinion is nearly worthless regarding this issue, I certainly hate to see us introduce any radical changes this late in Oneiric and with P being LTS I'd be equally scared to mess around very much during it's dev cycle. And I don't see how this could result in data loss so at worst it's an inconvenience, that is a person may have to reformat the free space they didn't want to use and then reinstall properly.

Ultimately I'd like to hear Colin Watson's opinion on this.