Comment 17 for bug 156177

Please do not reopen this bug. No amount of changing its status is going to change my willingness to integrate this functionality into the installer. This is not a papercut. Papercuts are *small* *usability* bugs, of which this is neither.

It is not as simple as saying "assign 10GB to / and give the rest to /home and swap." What if the hard drive is smaller than 10GB? What if 10GB is not enough for everything they want to contain under /? We are at best wildly guessing at what the user needs. Asking them to make the determination would be dumping a problem they are potentially unequipped to handle on them. Does a computer novice need to know what a partition is? Is asking them to determine how much space they think the system will use, versus how much space their personal files will use for an operating system that they have never even used before, fair?

More to the point, what is wrong with the current implementation of allowing advanced users to install over top of a previous version of Ubuntu, deleting system files where necessary? This avoids complicated partition schemes entirely.