> On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 10:24 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > As far as gvfs goes, it's harmless. Why be upset over it > > installation? > > External hard disc drives that fulfill the EU Regulation, that they have > to sleep after a while, will be waked up by GVFS again and again. This > will kill those "green" drives. Software like GVFS that will damage > hardware is a no-go. To get rid of it only a dummy package is needed, or > maintainers who ignore insane upstream dependencies ;).
I think that this is in the pipeline to address, but the problem is in Windows and OS X as well. A lot of it is name-calling and finger-pointing, and gvfs is no different from other devs. I know that on a Mac, if you use Apple's own external drive, there is no problem. I don't suppose that is really relevant. In the US, there was a program you could download from WD and I think maybe something similar from Seagate, that would disable the sleep thing. The drive would always be spinning, but it didn't cause the heads to keep parking and unparking. I don't know if this is still available or not, but I suspect that it isn't available in the EU. Windows will also sleep the WiFi adapter if you don't disable sleep, and then the USB won't reconnect after wakeup. It takes a physical unplug/replug to reset the thing. It is extremely bothersome. It causes problems on reboot, too. Have you considered NAS? > Regarding to the conflicts caused by Mate, how e.g. is the conflict > between mate-file-archiver and file-roller solved for Debian? To be honest, I don't know. There is no package named mate-file-roller installed on my machine. I'm running the Jessie version of MATE 1.6. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/002e01cec69e$1241d600$36c58200$@allums.com
