Why does udisks require eject?

Leonid.I · 2011-08-18 20:53:17

I noticed that on an Ubuntu/Debian system udisks 1.0.1 does not have eject as a dep. The same is true for LFS and udisks 1.0.3.

So, in Arch which functionality of udisks would be affected if eject is not installed? FWIW, in udisks 1.0.3 docs eject is not mentioned at all (or at least I could not find it)...

Thanks.

tomegun · 2011-08-21 20:18:26

I'd be very happy if we could make eject go away (as it is dead upstream). However, from looking at the source, it looks like udisks uses /usr/bin/eject whenever it wants to eject a device. If there is a way to make udisks do this "natively" (which sounds very plausible), then I'd be very happy to hear about it (maybe I missed something in the sources, I only glanced). A bug report with the corrected PKGBUILD against udisks is probably the way to go.

To check that you have it right: verify that you can uninstall the eject package and still eject your cdrom dive using udisk.

Leonid.I · 2011-08-21 23:58:34

Hmm, I must have missed this when writing OP. Anyway, I found this bugreport http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=626592 which confirms what you are saying... unfortunately

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#1 2011-08-18 20:53:17

Why does udisks require eject?

#2 2011-08-21 20:18:26

Re: Why does udisks require eject?

#3 2011-08-21 23:58:34

Re: Why does udisks require eject?

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