On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
Hi guys,
With udisks2 being used by gnome, and about to be used by the next KDE, some people have raised concerns about the transition from udisks1 to udisks2.
The issue is:
udisks1 mounts your devices to /media, whereas udisks2 will mount them to /run/media/$user.
There are very good reasons for this change (mainly security), but the fact remains that it causes problems on upgrade for people who have hard-coded these paths [0].
On a single-user system, the problem could simply be solved by symlinking /media to /run/media/$user. On multi-user systems one would have to add one symlink per device to /media. Either way, this is something the local admin would have to deal with and not anything we can do.
What we can do, however, is to avoid problems on upgrades of the filesystem package by not shipping /media on udisks1-free systems.
I suggest that we move /media from the filesystem to the udisks package, allowing everyone else to do what they wish locally. We would also need to post a news item (hopefully not quite as rambling as this email) explaining what has happened and what people might want to do.
Comments?
We will gets rid of /media. Please do. -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A