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