On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 11:00 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote: > Am Montag, den 13.02.2006, 11:07 -0500 schrieb David Zeuthen: > > I also think runtime detection of what mount helper to use royally > > sucks, it just makes the code look like spaghetti and it's a source of > > confusion for users. > > When pmount is installed, isn't it meant to "manage" /media, i.e. is it > bad to assume that everything going on in /media is pmount-related, and > all the other mount points are not?
Yes, that assumption is not valid. For example, gnome-mount also "manages" /media (via hal methods) and the user is of course free to create his own entries and use /etc/fstab. FHS mentions /media too http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT >From an end user point of view you either want gnome-mount or pmount installed but probably not both at the same time. They solve the same problem but in a different ways and the projects have different goals. > Also, when gnome-mount is used, the (p)mount code will only be reached > when the HAL UDI is NULL. Yes, that's right, one useful example of this is for entries in /etc/fstab that the user created himself. Also useful for passworded smb-mounts in /etc/fstab IIRC. Btw, on a related note I've got a little fix to gnome-vfs for using gnome-mount for unmounting some of these for problematic drives like PC floppy drives and IDE zip drives. Will submit patch this weekend. David _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
