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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> Le lundi 12 septembre 2005 ? 10:22 -0700, Eric Sandall a ?crit :
<snip>
> > We already have groups for disk, cdrom, and floppy, plus the cdrtools
> > package optionally adds a cdrecord group (IIRC). I'd be fine with
> > adding haldaemon to those groups if it makes it functional.
> Ok, but I guess I was not clear enough. The groups indeed exist but
> there is currently no udev rule that use them afaik. What I meant is
> that it so also implies to create udev rules to specify for example,
> that ide disk drives belong to disk group, cdrom drives to cdrom group,
> floppy drives and usb disk to floppy. Everybody agree on making that by
> default ?

Probably setup a hal.rules to do that and it should be fine, IMO.

<snip>
> > It's currently setup by the ISOs, but we're still on FHS 2.2 (IIRC)
> > which does not have /media nor /srv (since we as a distro voted not to
> > use them when FHS was asking).
> Mmmm... I didn't well understand ?? What do you mean ? Don't
> use /media ? Or do it ? Or maybe try to patch pmount to use /mnt ? (I
> would prefer the last if it is possible, I'm not a great fan
> of /media ;-) )

As a distro we voted against /media, but the FHS standard (2.3) went
that way anyways. Hence our ISO has partial (/media) FHS 2.3 support
(I'm not sure why), so /media is probably safe. I'd also rather not
modify a package, if possible.
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- -sandalle

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