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ninian

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Trouble ahead: udisks and udisks2

A recent post on the SpaceFM topic throws up worrying developments concerning udisks, especially if you don't want to use Gnome. udisks2 is a very different and incompatible beast from udisks, and will not be intended for incorporation into scripting. Just when we thought it was safe to abandon hal ....

wonder

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Re: Trouble ahead: udisks and udisks2

udisks and udisks2 can be installed in parallel. there is nothing to worry

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ninian

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Re: Trouble ahead: udisks and udisks2

udisks and udisks2 can be installed in parallel. there is nothing to worry

At least co-existence is a small plus for a while. But of course, udisks development will progressively die and bugs are already not being fixed, I believe.
Some new sustainable solutions are really needed, especially for those of us who don't want to get snarled up by the big DEs (such as Gnome in this case).

skottish

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Re: Trouble ahead: udisks and udisks2

I'm using this and it works perfectly for me:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125918&p=1

No udisks, consolekit, polkit, etc...