Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

[Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org> 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.

Regards