we need to disable fstab-sync in hal, or at least put it on a USE flag
I know you mentioned a USE flag for fstab-sync in the previous bug. However, I'd really prefer not to support fstab-sync. Its a dirty hack with uncontrollable policy and creates many more security risks (via tough administration) than pmount. If we choose not to support fstab-sync, its a one line change in the ebuild.
and when actually will this happen eventually? pmount is used in every other major distribution, why still not under gentoo-portage?
Patrick, rude comments onto bugs won't make them happen quicker. It's a work in progress. We're going to transition the changes most likely with the next Gnome release.
This has been removed in the 0.5.x series of HAL, which is still p.masked. Also removing foser's CC since he's on the utopia list.
Could we please re-enable fstab-sync? It worked a *LOT* better than pmount; actually, pmount doesn't seem to work at all....