Bug#689854: RFA: pmount -- mount removable devices as normal user
Hi,
Simon McVittie wrote:
> It might be worth noting that GNOME, LXDE and XFCE in at least wheezy do not
> use pmount (they all appear to use udisks via gvfs), and neither does KDE
> (it appears to use udisks via Solid).
People who use pmount these days probably use it on purpose and do not
want to use DE bloat like udisks or udisks2.
> Only a few things still depend on pmount:
I somehow dislike the words "only" and "still" in that sentence.
Kan-Ru Chen wrote:
> I'm still using pmount heavily and will not switch to other solutions in
> the foreseeable future
Same here, except for the "heavily". Don't have to mount external
block devices that often. But I strongly prefer to do it on the
command-line and pmount is a very convenient way to do that, despite
it seems to be initially developed to server as backend for GUI/DE
stuff. (Congrats to the upstream authors for having managed that
balancing act. :-)
> so I'm interested to join the maintenance of this package and the
> upstream.
I must admit, I'd probably mostly help with packaging and less with
upstream. But I'd jump in before pmount is at risk of being removed
from Debian.
pmount seems to be currently maintained as Alioth project, but I
wonder if collab-maint would be better for it in this state to attract
more spontaneous contributions and contributors.
Regards, Axel
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