[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#586333: Bug#586333: mount /var/run/gdm3 by default (?)

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 03:50:27PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> We try to keep what's mounted from the host as minimal as possible,
> and in this case it's specific to a single application.  It's not
> required for any use case other than running X applications, so I'd
> rather keep it out of the default config.

I won't object your maintainer choice on this. Still, please keep in
mind that it's a _significant_ use case, it's not just a "single
application", it's everyone which wants to run any X app from a
(s)chroot. For amd64 desktop users, it is likely to be the main reason
for using schroot in the first place :)

> I am, however, collecting custom setup scripts and configurations
> for specific uses in a new contrib directory which I will install
> under /usr/share/doc.  I can refer to this in README.Debian and/or
> the upstream docs and include the above mount options for gdm if
> that sounds OK.

Wonderful, it sounds like a plan.  If I were the maintainer, I'll
probably also add a FAQ file mentioning this, as I believe it will
become a recurrent question. YMMV, of course.

Thanks for your quick feedback!
Cheers.

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