[Mike Hommey] > There is a general problem with fuse, actually. fuse-utils is needed by > any program using libfuse and allowing users (i.e not root) to mount a > filesystem: In this case, libfuse uses fusemount to do the mount, since > mount(2) is unfortunately a CAP_SYS_ADMIN syscall, and fusemount is > suid root, allowing the fs to be mounted.
If there are particular entry points into libfuse that cause it to require fuse-utils, it seems to me you could express the dependency conditionally via the .symbols file. Not that I've ever tried it, but deb-symbols(5) indicates that this sort of flexibility is possible. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100327182129.gv18...@p12n.org
