Re: evil, undocumented, periodic, little critters in GNOME

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico helixcode com>]

Sean Middleditch <sean.middleditch@iname.com> writes:

> > This binary should have a man page, and so should a lot of other
> > binaries that GNOME conveniently adds as a virus, err, helper.
> > --andy
> 
> Magicdev is a RedHat thing, not a GNOME thing, in reality.  Complain to them.  ~,^
> 
> BTW, see if you can get RedHat to use Supermount instead.  It basically does what MagicDev
> does, but does it in a lot cleaner way (a kernel patch instead of a daemon hack).
> MagicDev was always irritating in RedHat, and I like Supermount a lot better... That'll
> solve a lot of the problems people keep having, too.  ^,^

The nice thing about magicdev is that it uses GMC's CORBA interface to
tell it to pop up a CD-ROM icon on the desktop when you insert a CD.

If someone CORBA-ifies supermount, many people may be happy.  This
should be trivial to do.

  Federico