On 2017-12-09 12:00, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Are you sure you need udisks? And policykit? I'm guessing you have > some default USE variables which if removed would contribute to a > cleaner system. I just checked the documentation about udisks in the > freedesktop site. I didn't manage to understand why it would be useful > (my fault, probably) but I understood enough to decide I wouldn't want > such stuff in my system.
AFAIK there are 2 main reasons for udisks: 1. automounting everything that moves, and even things that do not move. By automounting I mean fully automatic mounting, ie. without any click or other user action. Leaving aside the desirability of this, it can be mostly replaced by a set of udev rules, even though udev authors frown of such usage. 2. tracking media availability of optical drives, which maddeningly do not provide any interrupt-driven way to do that. In spite of my advancing age I can still remember when I insert a disc into my drive, so if I don't need 1. above I don't need this either. Ergo, I avoid udisks. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet, fetch the TXT record for the domain.
