[Thunar-dev] Ownership of auto-mounted devices

[Jonathan Hepburn]

I meant the fact that the ntfs-3g package required extra software in
order to work as advertised, not that a linux file browser didn't
mention a Windows requirement.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez<corsac at debian.org> wrote:
> On mer, 2009-08-05 at 15:38 +1000, Jonathan Hepburn wrote:
>> I had already installed ntfs-3g and restarted hal, but I noticed that
>> there were ntfs utils I didn't have installed so, just to be safe,
>> installed them, which seems to have fixed the problem.
>>
>> I think I may file a bug report with Debian about possible
>> dependencies/suggestions.
>
> You'll have hard time finding the correct package for that. There's no
> way Thunar, exo or whatever in Xfce stack would depends, recommends or
> even suggest ntfs utils (or, for that matter, any filesystem utils). And
> I don't think, imho, hal or mount should do that either.
>
> Basically, tools are here for basic support of most common filesystems
> (ext*, vfat), and for weirder options (yes, like ntfs), you should take
> care of that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Yves-Alexis
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