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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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