On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 10:34:23AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Sol??ne Rapenne <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I agree my sentence isn't good enough or is too much, but I think ZZZ
> > explanations isn't enough in its current form
> 
> Maybe it is lacking.  But your previous diff didn't help anyone.
> 
> > from your reply I got
> > information such as external devices that wasn't described in the man
> > page.
> 
> External devices have to get detached.  They lose their configuration
> because they lose their power.
> 
> The problem is that it is very difficult to explain to users, in a
> precise way, what an 'external device' is versus an 'internal device'.
> 
> It is extremely complicated, there is no way to accurately explain
> in user-speak what devices detach and what devices don't detach.
> 

pluggable?

> And if we can't write a correct sentence for that, maybe we should realize
> we don't need to?
> 
> Make a proposal.
> 

i agree that the original proposal was wrong. if anything, you'd maybe
want to know, for example, how to make it that you *were* asked for your
password when resuming an encrypted mount. that seems more pertinent to
softraid(4) than apm(8).

jmc

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