RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0
> On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 10:24 -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> > As far as gvfs goes, it's harmless. Why be upset over it
> > installation?
>
> External hard disc drives that fulfill the EU Regulation, that they have
> to sleep after a while, will be waked up by GVFS again and again. This
> will kill those "green" drives. Software like GVFS that will damage
> hardware is a no-go. To get rid of it only a dummy package is needed, or
> maintainers who ignore insane upstream dependencies ;).
I think that this is in the pipeline to address, but the problem is in Windows and OS X as well. A lot of it is name-calling and finger-pointing, and gvfs is no different from other devs. I know that on a Mac, if you use Apple's own external drive, there is no problem. I don't suppose that is really relevant. In the US, there was a program you could download from WD and I think maybe something similar from Seagate, that would disable the sleep thing. The drive would always be spinning, but it didn't cause the heads to keep parking and unparking. I don't know if this is still available or not, but I suspect that it isn't available in the EU. Windows will also sleep the WiFi adapter if you don't disable sleep, and then the USB won't reconnect after wakeup. It takes a physical unplug/replug to reset the thing. It is extremely bothersome. It causes problems on reboot, too.
Have you considered NAS?
> Regarding to the conflicts caused by Mate, how e.g. is the conflict
> between mate-file-archiver and file-roller solved for Debian?
To be honest, I don't know. There is no package named mate-file-roller installed on my machine. I'm running the Jessie version of MATE 1.6.
Mark
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