Why is there no partitioner preinstalled on any live ISO (KDE Plasma, full and minimal)?

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I think you are all talking about the final installation.

The final installation may or may not include a GUI partition manager.

However - the Live ISO - the packages ONLY available when you boot the ISO has contained the package gparted for as long as I can remember.

The Packages-Live has historically been a symlink to iso-profiles/shared/Packages-Live.

You can verify that by looking at the relevant profiles on gitlab.

So we have two situations here

  1. the live ISO
    • gparted
    • clonezilla
    • … tools
  2. the result of the installation
    • which unpacks
      • desktopfs.sfs
      • rootfs.sfs
    • to the designated partition layout

The first entry - has contained gparted since I began as ISO maintainer back in - I think between 2017 and 2018, I cannot remember - and it has not changed since since around 1 year.

The second entry - may or may not contain a GUI partition management tool - depending on what the maintainer deem necessary.

@nikgnomic the result is expected - because that file only contains what is contained in the rootfs.sfs and desktop.sfs - and since the livefs.sfs is ONLY live - your result is expected - otherwise the packagelist would be incorrect.

Please see the profiles

The Packages-LIve in the profile folder is a symlinkt to shared/Packages-Live · master · Profiles & Settings / iso-profiles · GitLab

However - it is entirely possible that - for some unexplainable reason the release manager has chosen to modify the profiles locally - and without publishing the changes back to the repo - this would have unpredicable results.

The presence of calamares5 indicates that a ISO build using a profile with local change is most unlikely.

Please note history of - Packages-Live - I just did - it looks like my memory is bad - gparted was mentioned in 1 year ago - in a gnome update commit.

By all reference in the repos and the files used to construct the ISO - gparted package should be installed - I downloaded the current manjaro-kde-24.0.1-minimal-240529-linux69.iso to double check

@nikgnomic
I stand corrected - the release manager did indeed change the Packages-Live file.

That happens when one does not remember that Packages-Live is a symlink - if you change Packages-Live in XFCE you change ALL - @philm - you should know - :grin: - you architected the system - right?

My deepest apologies for being so stubborn - not counting in the human factor :grinning:

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