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["Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Oct 09, Flavien Bridault [f.bridault AT fra.net] wrote:
> At last, I got gnome-volume-manager 1.5.3 working ! :)
> 
> I will so make the needed changes, especially in udev. So before doing
> that, I want to be sure that everybody agrees.
> 
> All block devices will belong to disk group, cdrom to cdrom group.

The latest iso doesn't have a cdrom group by default.

> Haldaemon user will belong to these groups. We already have these
> groups, but afaik we don't use them by default. Sandalle suggested to do
> that in a separated rules file, i.e. 70-hal.rules, but I don't see the
> interest of not doing that by default. I don't find any reason to not
> use disk and cdroms groups for the peripherals, but if you have one,
> please let me know, that's why I opened this thread. ;-)

Will this affect only new systems or updating existing ones as well?
Modifying the ownership of existing devices doesn't sound wise.

> I will make udev the default hotplug multiplexer by
> modifiying /etc/init.d/runlevels/%DEV/devices. That would not mean
> however that hotplug scripts are no more launched thanks to the use
> of /sbin/udev_run_hotplugd.

Does this only affect people using udev?  Will it do anything to people
using eg static dev?

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