Bug 431976

Summary:	net-fs/pup-volume-monitor - another disk mounter
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	turtle <turtle>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description turtle 2012-08-19 19:41:32 UTC

I am interested in contributing some sort of alternative for simple single user systems on older hardware.
users should not be forced to use Polkit and udisks if they want a simple WM to mount removable media / devices and do simple powermanagement like suspend or shutdown the system.
Problems with Polkit are:  
It uses a programing language (Java) for configs, is difficult to configure without any Gentoo documentation, and lacks a way to test rules.
It adds more overhead than needed for minimal systems.
Polkit is generally not necessary for a single user system like a laptop and was designed for enterprise sysadmins.

There are many posts detailing why udisks is a problematic system as well.
http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/udisks2-another-loss-for-linux/

Some folks over at puppy linux have pup-volume-monitor for mounting devices, it may not take much work to port such a thing to work on Gentoo or perhaps something else? Then some documentation on how to install Gentoo without requiring these complex bloated kitchensinkit software.


Reproducible: Always