Remarks on commit related to fuse support

[Logan Rathbone]

Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
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> On Sunday 22 October 2006 09:36, Logan Rathbone wrote:
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>> Also, it would be nice if /media were not hardcoded in the first place
>> -- so that distros like us, and Mandriva, for instance, who choose to
>> use /mnt rather than /media, can use HAL without constantly maintaining
>> and updating patches.
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> I once sent patch to take default mount root from HAL itself (this was the 
> time when we still had storage.policy namespace). This was rejected; may be 
> because it used declared obsolete property. I have to ask once more - what 
> harm does having storage.policy.mount_root (or whatever name is) do? But 
> current situation forces *every* third-party tool that is using HALto 
> actually mount devices to hardcode /media meaning that changing it in one 
> place almost for sure breaks something in another.
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> Being able to set it on HAL level just would make it consistent and easy to 
> manage.
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Even if the mount_root were defined as an autoconf variable that could 
be changed via the configure script, that would still be a huge 
improvement over the current situation IMHO.