Re: Why is Desktop NetBSD a threat to NetBSD?

[Anne Bennett <anne%porcupine.montreal.qc.ca@localhost>]

> Anyway, hal wants to control the mounting of fixed and removable
> drives, and it wants to do that independently of /etc/fstab.  It
> wants to use another set of XML config files called
> PolicyKit.conf and something else related to sessions and GDM.
> The upshot of which is that once hal is working properly (and on
> my FreeBSD box it still isn't), I lose the ability to mount things
> directly, I have to gnome-hal-mount --some-enormous-command-line
> (or get nautilus to do it, which is probably fine, when it
> works.)
>
> Even if you accept that that's a reasonable price to pay for a
> slick, integrated desktop that doesn't require terminal window
> incantations for anything,

I have to pipe up and say that although I'm in favour of making the
desktop work more smoothly and making the installation/patching more
easily usable, I would consider the above too steep a price to pay.

Anne Bennett.