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On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 2017-12-09 12:00, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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>> Are you sure you need udisks? And policykit? I'm guessing you have |
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>> some default USE variables which if removed would contribute to a |
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>> cleaner system. I just checked the documentation about udisks in the |
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>> freedesktop site. I didn't manage to understand why it would be useful |
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>> (my fault, probably) but I understood enough to decide I wouldn't want |
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>> such stuff in my system. |
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> AFAIK there are 2 main reasons for udisks: |
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> 1. automounting everything that moves, and even things that do not move. |
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> By automounting I mean fully automatic mounting, ie. without any |
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> click or other user action. Leaving aside the desirability of this, |
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> it can be mostly replaced by a set of udev rules, even though udev |
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> authors frown of such usage. |
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> 2. tracking media availability of optical drives, which maddeningly do |
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> not provide any interrupt-driven way to do that. In spite of my |
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> advancing age I can still remember when I insert a disc into my |
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> drive, so if I don't need 1. above I don't need this either. |
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> Ergo, I avoid udisks. |
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Yes, it seems appropriate for Windows refugees and linuxers suffering |
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from Apple-envy. When I said I didn't understand why it would be |
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useful, I meant that the documentation in the site is all but clear |
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about the goodness of its product. Lots of freedesktop/dbus |
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mumbo-jumbo, though. |
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Regards |
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