On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 03:22:03PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:20:56 +0200 > Dirk <noisyb@gmx.net> wrote: > > > Celejar wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:58:12 +0200 > > > Dirk <noisyb@gmx.net> wrote: > > > > > >> Avi Greenbury wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > >>> What is the 'best part of Linux' that HAL neglects? > > > > > > ... > > > > > >> The ability to mount devices myself, or not. > > > > > > This is just wrong; HAL *doesn't automount anything* on its own. It > > > merely passes information to a *volume manager*, which can be configured > > > to do whatever you want. I run HAL, and I've never had devices > > > automounted. When I tried once more, before firing off this message, lo > > > and behold my USB key did indeed automount, but I investigated and > > > realized that it was some component of xfce that was doing it. When I > > > unchecked the box "Settings / Removable Drives and Media / Storage / > > > Mount removable drives when hot-plugged", the old behavior returned. isn't this because it writes out HAL efi files ? /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi > > > > I am happy for you. > > > > But how does this prevent me from having to install HAL? > > I was merely correcting a demonstrably false implication of yours, that > HAL somehow interferes with your control over device mounting. > > Celejar -- I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the '60s as a result of controlled substances being in widespread use. Back then, there were no restrictions, in terms of talent, on who could make an album, so we made one, and it sounds like a group of people who have been given powerful but unfamiliar instruments as a therapy for a degenerative nerve disease. -- Dave Barry, "The Snake"
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