I meant the fact that the ntfs-3g package required extra software in order to work as advertised, not that a linux file browser didn't mention a Windows requirement.
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez<[email protected]> wrote: > On mer, 2009-08-05 at 15:38 +1000, Jonathan Hepburn wrote: >> I had already installed ntfs-3g and restarted hal, but I noticed that >> there were ntfs utils I didn't have installed so, just to be safe, >> installed them, which seems to have fixed the problem. >> >> I think I may file a bug report with Debian about possible >> dependencies/suggestions. > > You'll have hard time finding the correct package for that. There's no > way Thunar, exo or whatever in Xfce stack would depends, recommends or > even suggest ntfs utils (or, for that matter, any filesystem utils). And > I don't think, imho, hal or mount should do that either. > > Basically, tools are here for basic support of most common filesystems > (ext*, vfat), and for weirder options (yes, like ntfs), you should take > care of that. > > Cheers, > > -- > Yves-Alexis > > _______________________________________________ > Thunar-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev > > -- ======= Jonathan Hepburn http://sumdubito.blogspot.com twitter.com/dubito _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
