Michael Terry [2013-02-01 17:50 -0500]: > Is there much reason to install gvfs-fuse by default?
I think it would be fine to not install it by default on the tablet/ARM images. But I think it's quite important to keep for PC installs, as otherwise you stop all non-GNOMEish applications from accessing any remote or virtual (ArchiveMounter, etc.) file system. > Do we feel like there are many apps likely to do this that don't declare > a recommends on gvfs-fuse? This is not really something you can express as a package dependency IMHO. We wouldn't want to add gvfs-fuse depends to all packages which are not using GIO > Are there any apps likely to do that in the default install? > Firefox, Thunderbird, and LibreOffice all appear to talk native GIO > these days. I agree for the default install, but there are still plenty of popular applications such as Audacity or MythTV which are likely to access remote shares. > If we do need it for default apps, I imagine it could be made to launch > on demand. That would be cool indeed, something in the spirit of autofs? Can the kernel watch a directory and trigger something if it's being opened? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
