Bug 582286

Summary:	sys-fs/udisks: add USE flag for --enable-fhs-media
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	ta2002 <throw_away_2002>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Freedesktop bugs <freedesktop-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description ta2002 2016-05-06 15:53:55 UTC

There were a lot of complaints when udisks moved the location of mounted media from /media/user/ to /run/media/user/ (and some distributions even created patches to back out this change).

Starting with udisks-2.1.5 there is a compilation option (--enable-fhs-media) to return the mounts to the FHS compliant location.

I believe this should be the default option, but if that is not acceptable, at the very minimum, it should be available via a USE flag.

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-05-21 12:02:54 UTC

What are the problems with mounting things in /run instead of /media? :/

I must admit that I am a bit against changing the location each year and changing the location on each setup depending on a USE flag looks to me like a bit messy :|

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2016-05-21 17:07:50 UTC

I'm with Pacho here. If this needs to be changed at all, it should be done via configuration and not USE flags.

Comment 3 ta2002 2016-06-03 17:31:56 UTC

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #1)
> What are the problems with mounting things in /run instead of /media? :/

1. /run has a lot of system stuff in it (which I would rather ordinary users looking for their mounts not see at all)

2. It violates the FHS standard

I would rather it be done via configuration (just add --enable-fhs-media to the compilation options), but just wanted to present a second option.

Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2021-09-07 12:57:39 UTC

At present time I think this is won't fix, we don't plan to make it configurable, neither revert to the old location