On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 02:04:57PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > gnome-desktop-environment has (via gnome-volume-manager) a hard dependency > on udev. As I understand it, this is only strictly necessary if you want > hotplugged devices and inserted CDs to be automatically detected.
(which is one important feature in the desktop we're trying to feed our more novice users) > Given that udev has had a lot of annoying bugs and incompatibilities in the > past that broke other parts of the system badly, it would be nice if it were > possible to remove it while keeping the rest of Gnome on the system -- in > other words, it would be nice if the dependency on gnome-volume-manager could > be reduced to a recommendation. I'm not happy about getting rid of the full dependency, but I acknolowedge that udev is causing troubles for some people (I for one have no 2.6.12 yet, as I'm waiting for the debian images to be available in sid), so I would consider, if other team members are ok with the idea, to bring back the magicdev alternative, either for the while it takes to stabilise udev, or "forever" as it was in Sarge. Just not forcing the installation of one of them with a dependency isn't something I'm willing to do because I consider device mounting critical for GNOME. GNOME team, what should we do? Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/
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