Bug 227313 – Add information about nautilus vs gnome-volume-manager automounting in 2.22 upgrade guide

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Mart Raudsepp 2008-06-15 20:24:36 UTC]

From http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222219#c3 (Pacho Ramos):

> > The only tiny little snag is that when I plug in an external USB hard drive or
> > insert a CD nautilus pops up twice.
> 
> That doesn't really have anything to do with HAL. With GNOME-2.22 both nautilus
> and gnome-volume-manager are automounting, so it's doubled. Gilles just added
> latest gnome-volume-manager in the tree, with which USE=-automount will leave
> it all only for nautilus to automount (if you run nautilus as desktop, don't
> have automount in gnome-volume-manager), so that's fixed by that.
> 

Maybe would be interesting add this info to
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml

I have seen some mandriva users being a bit confused with this changes in 2.22,
some of them preferring have a full gnome-volume-manager with all automount
options for using without nautilus and others with only want have nautilus for
automount (and gnome-volume-manager for devices not supported by nautilus yet)

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2008-06-16 12:10:11 UTC]

Maybe other option could be rename "automount" USE flag to "nautilus" because:
1. Most common users will tend to enable any "automount" related stuff, even when using nautilus
2. Expected build for using with nautilus is with --disable-automount for preventing conflicts. From gnome-volume-manager Changelog:
        * src/manager.c: Conditionally disable all of the auto-mounting
        code which Nautilus is now supposed to handle starting with GNOME
        2.22, as far as I understand...

Also, distributions like fedora builds gnome-volume-manager disabling automount because most of its users will use gnome+nautilus

3. With a "nautilus" USE flag, people (like me) that uses gnome+nautilus will tend to enable it globally (for enabling nautilus support for file-roller, seahorse, gnome-mount...). This would also build gnome-volume-manager without automount support (better for usage with nautilus)

Other people who use pcman or thunar (for example), will tend to disable "nautilus" USE flag globally, getting gnome-volume-manager merged with automount support (expected behavior for these users)

Thanks a lot for opening this bug also :-)

[Comment 2 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-06-20 06:48:56 UTC]

Upgrade guide updated in CVS.

@Pacho, from the looks of it, g-v-m is on its way out anyway. Let's keep things simple for now, we can always revisit later. Besides, it's only a useflag :)

Thanks

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2008-06-20 12:51:48 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Upgrade guide updated in CVS.
> 
> @Pacho, from the looks of it, g-v-m is on its way out anyway. Let's keep things
> simple for now, we can always revisit later. Besides, it's only a useflag :)
> 
> Thanks
> 

OK, thanks for explanation