* On 2014 09 Oct 19:03 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Half the distros I've used couldn't mount flash drives. If systemd > takes away that ability, screw it, I'll do what I've always done, have > mount NOPASSORD in sudoers, and write a little shellscript, a couple > keystrokes called by dmenu, that mounts and tells the mountpoint. Maybe > even cd's to it within an xterm session. > > Of course, I run a one person desktop. No way I'd do that on a server. > > LOL, the more people bust old features putting in new features, the > more I kludge.
I just went ahead and went back to sysvinit-core and in the process started purging packages in Aptitude! At the end policykit, packagekit, rtkit, and systemd were excised and a whole host of other stuff I couldn't find a reason to keep. Guess what, Thunar now gives me read/write permission when mounting my flash drive due to an old line in /etc/fstab. However, it doesn't show up on the Xfce desktop. :-( I can live with that, however. I had gotten my wireless network adapter working through /etc/network/interfaces a few days ago so had already purged NetworkManager. This is on my main desktop machine and I still have all of this stuff installed on my laptop since I prefer convenience when using it. Here I want speed and very little in my way for development. All this new stuff just covered up and destroyed what I had working in the past. As I'm the only user, this is now acceptable behavior. At the very least, I am starting to look at all of the installed packages as to what they do for me, not to me. ;-) - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141010002917.ga6...@n0nb.us
