Re: [DNG] Cease battling each other in e-mail (was: Of confidence and support and the future of Devuan.)

2019-04-24 Thread Bruce Perens via Dng
Jaromil, it really is time for you to stop. It is time for YOU to stop. It
is TIME for you to stop.

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 11:24 PM Jaromil  wrote:

>
> dear Rick,
>
> I wholeheartedly agree with you and others here that this
> communication shouldn't have been public, I also consider this a
> damage procured to the project, which I did not start nor was able to
> mediate. As I admitted in devuan-dev, I don't think I'm apt for
> mediation on this issue anymore.
>
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, Rick Moen wrote:
>
> > Nobody should be forced out, nobody should be driven to quit
>
> unfortunately this has happened, plus a series of other events, which
> have then been represented here in a manipulative way. I now believe I
> was wrong in nurturing this thread. My mistake came from fear that
> people wouldn't understand what is going on. I'm sorry for the noise.
>
> FTR I agree with you about the noble meaning of (non institutional?)
> politics. I should have used just the term populism. I do believe
> Devuan caretakers should show their care for Devuan by dedicating
> themselves to solve conflicts in private and within those in charge,
> rather than bring it to public this way.
>
> ciao
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Re: [DNG] Cease battling each other in e-mail (was: Of confidence and support and the future of Devuan.)

2019-04-24 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 08:23:30AM +0200, Jaromil wrote:

[cut]

> 
> FTR I agree with you about the noble meaning of (non institutional?)
> politics. I should have used just the term populism. I do believe
> Devuan caretakers should show their care for Devuan by dedicating
> themselves to solve conflicts in private and within those in charge,
> rather than bring it to public this way.
> 

Please, everybody, just stop here. I have asked all the Devuan core
developers to have a personal conversation, in order to see what is
the common ground and what a possible way out of this empasse would
look like.

I would kindly ask *everybody* to please shut their email clients off,
and stop writing any email on this matter for the next 24 hours. The
time of writing is over. Nothing anybody can add in an email will help
moving forward by a millimeter. Now is the time to listen.

Thanks a lot for your cooperation

The last humble servant

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Re: [DNG] Cease battling each other in e-mail (was: Of confidence and support and the future of Devuan.)

2019-04-24 Thread Jaromil

dear Rick,

I wholeheartedly agree with you and others here that this
communication shouldn't have been public, I also consider this a
damage procured to the project, which I did not start nor was able to
mediate. As I admitted in devuan-dev, I don't think I'm apt for
mediation on this issue anymore.

On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, Rick Moen wrote:

> Nobody should be forced out, nobody should be driven to quit

unfortunately this has happened, plus a series of other events, which
have then been represented here in a manipulative way. I now believe I
was wrong in nurturing this thread. My mistake came from fear that
people wouldn't understand what is going on. I'm sorry for the noise.

FTR I agree with you about the noble meaning of (non institutional?)
politics. I should have used just the term populism. I do believe
Devuan caretakers should show their care for Devuan by dedicating
themselves to solve conflicts in private and within those in charge,
rather than bring it to public this way.

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Re: [DNG] New application ready to test: hopman

2019-04-24 Thread Didier Kryn

Le 24/04/2019 à 20:43, Steve Litt a écrit :

On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:05:12 +0200
Didier Kryn  wrote:


Le 24/04/2019 à 01:05, Evilham via Dng a écrit :

Am 24. April 2019 00:24:56 MESZ schrieb Steve Litt



3. Document the misbehaviour when users... Misbehave (okay, that
was a bad joke).

      There's an infinite number of ways a human can misbehave. For
brutal extraction of the media, I don't think it is easy to
characterize.

There's a way. There can be a "superumount" that acquires a root
password and keeps doing umount until it's really unmounted on all
lists like mtab.


    /etc/mtab is userspace only and is optionaly bypassed by mount; 
it's unreliable. Two pseudofiles are maintained by the kernel: 
/proc/self/mounts and /proc/self/mountinfo. The last is also the newest 
and contains more information; this is the one which is checked 
periodically by hopman. You can perfectly verify this by invoking 
pmount/pumount from the command-line while looking at hopman's display. 
The periodicity of these checks is set in the config file; it is 5s by 
default. Hopman does not rely on its interactions with the user to know 
the status of the filesystems; instead it reads all it shows from /dev, 
/sys and /proc. After a mount or umount command has been selected in the 
menu, then, of course, hopman doesn't wait 5s to check the result, but 
it shows only what the kernel reports.


    When you select unmount on hopman's menu, hopman invokes pumount, 
and pumount eventually calls umount(). If some process is accessing the 
mount point or any file or directory in the directory tree below the 
mountpoint, umount() returns -1 and sets errno to EBUSY (man 2 umount). 
At this point, I guess pumount prints strerror(errno) which is equal to 
"Device or resource busy". Then hopman detects that pumount exited with 
an eror code and hopman reads the message that pumount has printed on 
its stderr and shows it in a pop-up window. But hopman does not devise 
the existence or status of partitions from the result of pumount or any 
helper command.


    I am surprised that you can select unmount on hopman's menu for a 
partition on a device which has been removed, because the hotplugger 
should have deleted the corresponding device file and, therefore, hopman 
should have removed it immediately from its display. Did you open the 
menu and then extract the device before clicking the menu entry ?


            Didier


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Re: [DNG] Cease battling each other in e-mail

2019-04-24 Thread Mark Rousell
On 24/04/2019 19:11, Rick Moen wrote:
> I waited a day, before commenting about this, because I needed to ponder
> the matter carefully and not seem as if I were taking sides in
> intra-Devuan Project interpersonal warfare.
>
> Jaromil, I was extremely serious when I said you-all caretakers should
> convince each other to _cease battling each other in e-mail_.  The only 
> result is angry resignations, which is about as useful to an open source
> project as sawing off your own arm.
>
> Cease battling each other in e-mail.  Jesus Jehosephat Christ, man,
> isn't the wisdom of that advice clear _yet_? 
>
> All of you, your good self, Enzo/KatolaZ, Dan Reurich, Ralph Ronnquist, 
> Evilham, golinux (who's been constructive and blameless as always),
> fsmithred, and others I'm probably forgetting, should be acting to end
> the interpersonal craziness.  Nobody should be forced out, nobody should
> be driven to quit, everyone who's leaving in anger should be invited to
> a Jitsi conference where you figure out how to bury the hatchet and 
> come up with a more-constructive way of resolving disputes.  (I'm
> aware that extremely bad things are happening in private communications.
> IMO, you should be working nonstop to not only stop but reverse those
> things.)

Very well said.

The kind of bickering that has been occurring here is, quite clearly,
damaging the project. It seems to me as an observer of this project that
the bickering is in fact more damaging to the project than any of the
contentious actions that have occurred!

It would be better by far to JUST STOP the bickering. It shouldn't even
be necessary for anyone to issue apologies (although no harm in doing
so, and I note that there already have been apologies). But even without
apologies, just stop. Draw a mental line under everything that has
happened and go on. There is no doubting the technical capabilities of
everyone involved and the importance of this project to operating system
diversity.

> The Jenkins server thing?  [...] Treat it as a minor organisational-process 
> bobble that took 
> down an important system.  Use the event as an opportunity to make sure
> you have working failover plans.
[...]
> The people / communication problems you and
> the other caretakers have been failing to solve are an, frankly, an
> emergency.

Yes, in addition to putting in place some technical plans for
emergencies, resiliency and planned maintenance, it also seems to be
important to put in place procedures for *communication* between
participants (with logging for future reference). There need to be
reliable and documented ways to let everyone involved (as well as the
public when a public-facing service is affected) know what is happening,
including in emergencies.

If anything, recent events should be seen as a positive opportunity to
get this sort of structure that will inevitably be needed for growth,
resiliency and success in place.

> Dismiss the circular firing squad, sir.

Good phraseology.


-- 
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Re: [DNG] Cease battling each other in e-mail (was: Of confidence and support and the future of Devuan.)

2019-04-24 Thread Simon Hobson
I've been lurking and resisting from posting, largely because ... I'm the last 
person to be telling people how to communicate in a friendly manner. I'm 
autistic, and one of the traits I get from that is the tendency to completely 
miss the subtleties of interpersonal communications, and to speak (write) in a 
fairly blunt manner. Thus I find I can quite easily turn a normal situation 
into a complete sh*tstorm without any effort at all :-(

But speaking as someone who's done practical jokes that weren't well received, 
and made cockups when administering systems, this recent sh*tstorm just isn't 
fair to anyone involved or productive to the project.

As Rick quite correctly notes :

Rick Moen  wrote:

> The Jenkins server thing?  That was an annoying technical failure, but
> did not in any way justify your firebreathing public and private
> e-mails.  Treat it as a minor organisational-process bobble that took 
> down an important system.  Use the event as an opportunity to make sure
> you have working failover plans.

This. If you shout down anyone who gets something wrong (and then fixes it), 
then you end up only with people who either :
a) Have such a thick skin that they really don't care at all what people say to 
them or think of them.
b) Don't make such mistakes because they don't ever take any risk or try and go 
beyond whatever is already scripted for them - ie they don't really do anything 
all that useful.
Neither personality is what the project needs.

Look around and there are some seriously impressive buildings/structures - 
cathedrals, bridges, and so on. None of these were built without making 
mistakes. Lots of them fell down - the people building them learned from their 
mistakes, added to the pool of knowledge, and so built ever grander structures. 
So lets all* be part of a team building a construction to be proud of, rather 
than being one of a group with pick axes digging away under the foundations.

* Sadly I don't think I can include myself in that as I don't have the 
knowledge and skills to contribute - I can install a system and configure 
packages, but my programming these days is limited to a bit of Bash. I am 
deeply in awe of those of you who can write code, build packages, etc, etc.


> Populism?  Egos?  Personalisation?  Sure.  Those happen, and are part of
> the carnival, because there are human beings involved

This.
Being a group of diverse people with different views, traits, skills, etc is 
what makes life interesting. Yes, people will upset each other from time to 
time - but that too is part of making life interesting.

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Re: [DNG] New application ready to test: hopman

2019-04-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:05:12 +0200
Didier Kryn  wrote:

> Le 24/04/2019 à 01:05, Evilham via Dng a écrit :
> > Am 24. April 2019 00:24:56 MESZ schrieb Steve Litt 


> > 3. Document the misbehaviour when users... Misbehave (okay, that
> > was a bad joke).  
> 
>      There's an infinite number of ways a human can misbehave. For 
> brutal extraction of the media, I don't think it is easy to
> characterize.

There's a way. There can be a "superumount" that acquires a root
password and keeps doing umount until it's really unmounted on all
lists like mtab.

SteveT

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[DNG] Cease battling each other in e-mail (was: Of confidence and support and the future of Devuan.)

2019-04-24 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Jaromil (jaro...@dyne.org):

> Precisely. I am afraid though, that people will just go on writing
> "please stay <3" letters to CenturionDan, (who is the one responsible
> for Katolaz to leave, for the CI for being down, for this drama here)
> without even thinking how other volunteers feel like. Because this is
> how politics work: personalisations, egos and populism.

I waited a day, before commenting about this, because I needed to ponder
the matter carefully and not seem as if I were taking sides in
intra-Devuan Project interpersonal warfare.

Jaromil, I was extremely serious when I said you-all caretakers should
convince each other to _cease battling each other in e-mail_.  The only 
result is angry resignations, which is about as useful to an open source
project as sawing off your own arm.

Cease battling each other in e-mail.  Jesus Jehosephat Christ, man,
isn't the wisdom of that advice clear _yet_? 

All of you, your good self, Enzo/KatolaZ, Dan Reurich, Ralph Ronnquist, 
Evilham, golinux (who's been constructive and blameless as always),
fsmithred, and others I'm probably forgetting, should be acting to end
the interpersonal craziness.  Nobody should be forced out, nobody should
be driven to quit, everyone who's leaving in anger should be invited to
a Jitsi conference where you figure out how to bury the hatchet and 
come up with a more-constructive way of resolving disputes.  (I'm
aware that extremely bad things are happening in private communications.
IMO, you should be working nonstop to not only stop but reverse those
things.)

The Jenkins server thing?  That was an annoying technical failure, but
did not in any way justify your firebreathing public and private
e-mails.  Treat it as a minor organisational-process bobble that took 
down an important system.  Use the event as an opportunity to make sure
you have working failover plans.  I've built and administered Jenkins
servers, most recently on remote-hosted VMs on AWS where failure of a
new kernel to boot would have been deeply problematic.  OK, so that
happened.  This is where you not only stand up a new Jenkins instance
(if necessary, reconstructing it from scratch) but also make sure daily
offsite scripted backups occur plus that you have the ability to quickly
deploy a replacement host and restore state.  At that point, any similar
incident can be dealt with by using that recovery plan and then
repointing DNS.

I'm only a friendly outsider, but can say as a senior sysadmin and
professional Operations person that the ci.devuan.org thing was not
something to get angry and start threatening people over, no matter how
many older grudges you've been holding.  The infrastructure is important
but only a small problem.  The people / communication problems you and
the other caretakers have been failing to solve are an, frankly, an
emergency.  

Dismiss the circular firing squad, sir.  Get everyone to come back 
onto Jitsi at some mutually convenient time, and talk things out.

And cease battling each other in e-mail.  Now.


Oh, and I cannot resist sounding very non-American for a moment:  
You're deeply mistaken in deploring 'politics'.  Politics is good!
Politics, from the Greek Πολιτικά, means conducting the public's
business.  All software projects have politics, and the mature raction
to that fact is not to recoil from it and call it base and evil, but
rather to embrace it.  Politics is part of the process of collective
action, of getting things done.

Populism?  Egos?  Personalisation?  Sure.  Those happen, and are part of
the carnival, because there are human beings involved, and so one must
be aware of those basic facts and swim through them, keeping on eye 
on what is actually the agenda.

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[DNG] [devuan-dev] Of confidence and support and the future of Devuan.

2019-04-24 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
As a Devuan user I suggest the Devuan Administrative Team to consider
the thinking of a detailed contingency plan in case of a crises that
should include how to deal with internal conflicts and what to do when
important servers fail. I would also suggest setting up emergency
supplimentary servers that should stay dormant when there are no
problems. By servers I do not mean those extremely expensive servers
but also normal home computers. Furthermore, why not use
virtualisation for these all important servers? In case a virtual
machine breaks another instance should spring into life to replace it.

These are my suggestions: I admit I am not at all versed where servers
are involved let alone their adminstration.
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Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Of confidence and support and the future of Devuan.

2019-04-24 Thread info at smallinnovations dot nl
On 24-04-19 09:20, Jaromil wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, KatolaZ wrote:
>
>> Counting individual contributions to a voluntary project is totally
>> pointless: since there is no price tag on "one hour of voluntary
>> work", then a voluntary contribution of one hour is as important and
>> as valuable as 1000 hours of voluntary contribution. Noone can ask a
>> volunteer to work more, or to work less, or to work at all, because a
>> volunteer is a free man/woman devoted to a cause. Devuan is made by a
>> community of voluntaries, not by single egos. Making contributions as
>> much as possible *invisible*, anonymising, hiding, de-personalising,
>> collectivising, this is the only way through IMHO, the only way to let
>> a community shine. If anything will last, it will be Devuan as a
>> whole, not any of the volunteers who have put it into existence.
>>
>> "A leader is best
>> When people barely know he exists
>> Of a good leader, who talks little,
>> When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
>> They will say, 'We did this ourselves.'
>> ", Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
> Precisely. I am afraid though, that people will just go on writing
> "please stay <3" letters to CenturionDan, (who is the one responsible
> for Katolaz to leave, for the CI for being down, for this drama here)
> without even thinking how other volunteers feel like. Because this is
> how politics work: personalisations, egos and populism.
>  
> ciao

Measuring the value of contributions from people to Devuan is not your
strongest point. Besides there is only one person responsible for
Katolaz to leave and that is Katolaz himself.

Grtz

Nick




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Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Of confidence and support and the future of Devuan.

2019-04-24 Thread Jaromil
On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, KatolaZ wrote:

> Counting individual contributions to a voluntary project is totally
> pointless: since there is no price tag on "one hour of voluntary
> work", then a voluntary contribution of one hour is as important and
> as valuable as 1000 hours of voluntary contribution. Noone can ask a
> volunteer to work more, or to work less, or to work at all, because a
> volunteer is a free man/woman devoted to a cause. Devuan is made by a
> community of voluntaries, not by single egos. Making contributions as
> much as possible *invisible*, anonymising, hiding, de-personalising,
> collectivising, this is the only way through IMHO, the only way to let
> a community shine. If anything will last, it will be Devuan as a
> whole, not any of the volunteers who have put it into existence.
> 
> "A leader is best
> When people barely know he exists
> Of a good leader, who talks little,
> When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
> They will say, 'We did this ourselves.'
> ", Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Precisely. I am afraid though, that people will just go on writing
"please stay <3" letters to CenturionDan, (who is the one responsible
for Katolaz to leave, for the CI for being down, for this drama here)
without even thinking how other volunteers feel like. Because this is
how politics work: personalisations, egos and populism.
 
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Re: [DNG] New application ready to test: hopman

2019-04-24 Thread Didier Kryn

Le 24/04/2019 à 00:24, Steve Litt a écrit :

On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 12:22:44 +0200
Didier Kryn  wrote:


    Hello Devuaneers.

    I have put on https://git.devuan.org/kryn/hopman an application
to let mount/umount/open filesystems on hotplug mass storage devises
such as USB sticks or SD cards. This is a replacements for features
provided by Desktop Environments.

[snip]

OUT-standing

I didn't have a ready to use Devuan VM, so I just installed it on Void
Linux. It worked perfectly, once I understood the deal.

A lot of the stuff I report here might not happen on Devuan, but then
again I might find some errors or maloptimizations that might be edge
cases in Devuan.

Anyway, I followed your compile instructions and it worked perfectly.
But when I ran hopman, I got a "Bus error" message running it as either
slitt or root. So I touched /home/slitt/.hopmanrc, got past the bus
error, but got another error. Infatiguable, I copied the entirety
of /etc/default/hopmanrc to ~/.hopmanrc, and the thing began to work.



    I didn't try to link it against musl libc yet. Thanksfor doing it. 
Many C library functions are non-standard in glibc and the application 
might well rely on some non-standard behaviour. Or there might just be a 
bigger bug. Reading config file is done by mmap()ing it and then there's 
some realloc()  stuff to store the data.




For those of you who haven't tried hopman yet, let me define "work".
You run hopman on the command line, and it sits there and spins. No
gui. *Until* you insert a thumb drive. Then, all of a sudden, the gui
pops up with the thumb's label. Left click the label line and you get
choices to open in filemanager, open in terminal, mount, or eject.
Regardless of what you set EjectHelper to in .hopmanrc, trying to eject
always errors saying "No command helper". This is true even if I set
the EjectHelper to the same string as UmountHelper in ~/.hopmanrc. I
have a hunch something's hard coded that shouldn't be. One of the source
files (config.c I think) mentions there's no known EjectHelper.



    Yes, I have hardcoded it before I developped the configuration 
capabilities. I should remove this hard-coding.





Hopman didn't show up anywhere on my lxpanel: I have a feeling that was
a design decision so hopman doesn't need to know the intracies of each
panel it interfaces with.



    I don't know how to do that, and didn't think of it even. I guess 
this is standardized in Freedesktop -- not everything is bad in Freedesktop.




Bottom line, a running Hopman shows a GUI window *only* if thumb drives
or USB harddisks are plugged in.

Like almost every other mounter software, hopman gets itself in a crazy
state if you yank the thumb drive out before unmounting it. In this
crazy state, it tells you you can't unmount it because it's in use.



    That shouldn't happen. Hopman could only tell you it is not 
mounted. Or it is just the error reported by pumount. And pumount will 
probably report it because you still have the mountpoint in use in a 
terminal or file manager or any other application.


Anyway the mountpoint shouldn't be reported anymore by the kernel in 
/proc/self/mountinfo, and hopman checks this file every 5s (by default) 
and will report it is not mounted.



This also happened on my inotifywait based mounter (which another
Devuanner improved substantially). I'll research this more.

I'm trying to create a runit run file for hopman and am having a little
trouble. I'll report back later.



    hopman isn't a system-wide daemon. It should rather be considered a 
login session daemon; it runs for a user. Are you using runit to launch 
your session's daemons? I think the session daemons can be declared in 
the DE's configuration.




One more thing: Hopman is wonderful software. Very few dependencies,
easy as hell to compile. No ./configure step. No BS. The source is
fairly easy to read. It does one thing and does it well. This is how
all software should be written.


    Thanks Steve. That was the goal; these are the principle we all 
share at Devuan (~:


        Didier





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Re: [DNG] New application ready to test: hopman

2019-04-24 Thread Didier Kryn

Le 24/04/2019 à 01:05, Evilham via Dng a écrit :
Am 24. April 2019 00:24:56 MESZ schrieb Steve Litt 
:

>On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 12:22:44 +0200
>Didier Kryn  wrote:
>
>>     Hello Devuaneers.
>>
>>     I have put on https://git.devuan.org/kryn/hopman an application
>> to let mount/umount/open filesystems on hotplug mass storage devises
>> such as USB sticks or SD cards. This is a replacements for features
>> provided by Desktop Environments.
>
>[snip]
>
>OUT-standing
>
>I didn't have a ready to use Devuan VM, so I just installed it on Void
>Linux. It worked perfectly, once I understood the deal.
>
>A lot of the stuff I report here might not happen on Devuan, but then
>again I might find some errors or maloptimizations that might be edge
>cases in Devuan.
>
>Anyway, I followed your compile instructions and it worked perfectly.
>But when I ran hopman, I got a "Bus error" message running it as either
>slitt or root. So I touched /home/slitt/.hopmanrc, got past the bus
>error, but got another error. Infatiguable, I copied the entirety
>of /etc/default/hopmanrc to ~/.hopmanrc, and the thing began to work.
>
>For those of you who haven't tried hopman yet, let me define "work".
>You run hopman on the command line, and it sits there and spins. No
>gui. *Until* you insert a thumb drive. Then, all of a sudden, the gui
>pops up with the thumb's label. Left click the label line and you get
>choices to open in filemanager, open in terminal, mount, or eject.
>Regardless of what you set EjectHelper to in .hopmanrc, trying to eject
>always errors saying "No command helper". This is true even if I set
>the EjectHelper to the same string as UmountHelper in ~/.hopmanrc. I
>have a hunch something's hard coded that shouldn't be. One of the
>source
>files (config.c I think) mentions there's no known EjectHelper.
>
>Hopman didn't show up anywhere on my lxpanel: I have a feeling that was
>a design decision so hopman doesn't need to know the intracies of each
>panel it interfaces with.
>
>Bottom line, a running Hopman shows a GUI window *only* if thumb drives
>or USB harddisks are plugged in.
>
>Like almost every other mounter software, hopman gets itself in a crazy
>state if you yank the thumb drive out before unmounting it. In this
>crazy state, it tells you you can't unmount it because it's in use.
>This also happened on my inotifywait based mounter (which another
>Devuanner improved substantially). I'll research this more.
>
>I'm trying to create a runit run file for hopman and am having a little
>trouble. I'll report back later.
>
>One more thing: Hopman is wonderful software. Very few dependencies,
>easy as hell to compile. No ./configure step. No BS. The source is
>fairly easy to read. It does one thing and does it well. This is how
>all software should be written.
>


Thank you for the review! I had the feeling this would be quite nice :-).

If I may recommend, open 3 issues on gdo (on phone, about to sleep, 
else I'd do it):


1. Improve documentation / UX by communicating the "No GUI until you 
plug sth" behaviour on stdout.



    It might print a message on stderr (all messages are sent to 
stderr, except by error of the author), however one can read in the man 
page that "Hopman shows a list of  hotplug (removable) mass storage  
partitions; it is invisible when there is no hot-plug partition."


2. Either gracefully treat a packing rc dir or to create it 
automatically or just to have a good stderr message



    Please excuse me evilham, I don't know what is a "packing rc dir".

3. Document the misbehaviour when users... Misbehave (okay, that was a 
bad joke).


    There's an infinite number of ways a human can misbehave. For 
brutal extraction of the media, I don't think it is easy to characterize.


    Thanks.

            Didier


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