Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@xxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 03 April 2012, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar wrote:
> Quoting Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > No! Removing systemwide automounting is a major feature regression.
> >
> > Not all people use KDE or Gnome. They also use IceWM, OpenBox,
> > Enlightenment, pure console and anything else. And they also want
> > USB drives automounted.
> >
> > Not to say that functionality and consumed resources are doubled
> > when automounting
> > is handled by the desktop.
> >
> > Also note that udisks compatibility is not guaranteed between the
> > releases and
> > it is much easier to to change one place than multiple.
>
> Ilya,
>
> from where I stand I see two solutions for you (I'm serious):
> 1) You ask udisks2 upstream developer to stop their efforts and
> invest their time in udisks1 or any other auto-mount solution you
> favor. Then you ask any other upstream project that switched so far
> to udisks two to change to your favorite automounter
> 2) We drop udisks2 in Factory in favor of whatever you choose as
> automounter. And YOU will personally take care that every piece of
> software we get from any random upstream works with the by you chosen
> automounter.
>
> If none of those options appeal to you, then PLEASE realize that even
> though not every decision does make sense to one individual, some
> others might see a sense in it.

Just to add something. At our company 9 of 10 machines (both desktop and 
servers) are used by users without KDE or Gnome. AFAIR automounting 
removable media does not work since a few openSUSE versions allthough 
it worked in past.

Netherveless I don't care much about automounting because IMO using 
removable medias is somewhat outdated. Since suse 8.x I always disabled 
automounting and gave users permissions to mount manually. However the 
mechanism has been changed every second suse version so I became tired 
of it and since 10.x I simply ignore the whole thing completely.

Anyway would be nice to have a "systemwide automounting" with a 
promising future to be able to setup our systems properly again. 

cu,
Rudi
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