Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (193 mails)

[Andreas Schneider <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Michael Galloway <mgx@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> my first questions is why drop subfs? i know its not perfect, but its 
>> adequate for the most part. 
> 
> subfs was an additional kernel module that has not been accepted by
> the kernel team and caused us a number of problems and strange issues,
> e.g. df never reported the right thing.  With hal support in the
> products, hal enables to do automatic mounting of media as well with
> helper support.  Such helpers already exist for both KDE and GNOME.
> 

For those people loving thousands of popups popping up! A solution would be
helper (using HAL) like subfs doing it automatically.

Err, the only solution! :)

	-- andreas

>> it seems that the way this goes is that is assumes the desktop world 
>> revolves on kde, which perhaps is a bit of a mistake.
> 
> Nope around GNOME and KDE ;-)
> 
> 
> 
>> -- michael
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:07:02AM +0100, houghi wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> During the IRC meeting from 2006-01-24 it was announced that subfs has
>>> been dropped. IRC log and minutes can be found at
>>> http://www.opensuse.org/2006-01-24-status-meeting and the timestap for the
>>> subfs issue begins at 19:47
>>>
>>> From the minutes:
>>> - subfs has been dropped and will be replaced by hal plus
>>>   gnome-volume-manager (under GNOME) and some binary for KDE.
>>>   non-KDE and non-GNOME users have to mount manually. They cant
>>>   even put a line into /etc/fstab, so that a user can mount it.
>>>   There was a consens that this is unacceptable.
>>> Action Item houghi:
>>> - start discussion about subfs replacement in non KDE/GNOME systems on
>>>   opensuse-factory
>>>
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> Andreas

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