On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 14:10:29 -0500, David Zeuthen <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sure, there will be proponents of ditching fstab-sync, people > will scream "oh, so how do you expect I mount by cdrom from the > command line, gimme back my /etc/fstab line for /dev/cdrom", > but personally, I think the trade off of improved desktop UI > versus command line users is worth that. Command line users > probably know how to an entry themselves, otherwise they > wouldn't be using the command line in the first place :-) I personally like the idea of removing the dynamically controlled mountpoint from /etc/fstab completely. autofs controlled mountpoints already don't use fstab so its not like moving hal facilitated mounts out of fstab sets a new precedent. If the non-fstab future can be encoded into desktop ui.. im sure it can be encoded into some sort of cli tool for cli usage to interact with hal in a similar way. -jef
