[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#525222: Bug#525222: USB devices do not trigger any response from hal - XFCE

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Mon Apr 27 06:42:17 UTC 2009


On lun, 2009-04-27 at 08:39 +0200, Xr wrote:
> thunar-volman depends on thunar, which depends on libc6, so there's no
> way you could install thunar-volman without pulling libc6. Still,
> libc6 is added as an explicit dependency on thunar-volman because
> without it, thunar-volman could never run.
> 
> From that point of view, both options (add to thunar-volman or leave
> the current behavior) look reasonable. Does thunar use hal for
> something else than acting as a "dependency proxy" to thunar-volman ?
> Because if it doesn't, then the recommendation on hal should be moved
> to thunal-volman.

thunar-volman just automount stuff. Thunar needs hal to see the device
events and reacts (showing it in the pane or asking thunar-volman what
to do).

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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