On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Tom Gundersen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > With udisks2 being used by gnome, and about to be used by the next > KDE, some people have raised concerns about the transition from > udisks1 to udisks2. > > The issue is: > > udisks1 mounts your devices to /media, whereas udisks2 will mount them > to /run/media/$user. > > There are very good reasons for this change (mainly security), but the > fact remains that it causes problems on upgrade for people who have > hard-coded these paths [0]. > > On a single-user system, the problem could simply be solved by > symlinking /media to /run/media/$user. On multi-user systems one would > have to add one symlink per device to /media. Either way, this is > something the local admin would have to deal with and not anything we > can do. > > What we can do, however, is to avoid problems on upgrades of the > filesystem package by not shipping /media on udisks1-free systems. > > I suggest that we move /media from the filesystem to the udisks > package, allowing everyone else to do what they wish locally. We would > also need to post a news item (hopefully not quite as rambling as this > email) explaining what has happened and what people might want to do. > > Comments? > We will gets rid of /media. Please do.
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