Head Up: Prepare for dropping fuse group in the nearest future

[Warren Togami]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 23:03 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
>> Peter Lemenkov wrote:
>>> Hello All!
>>>
>>> Due to landing of upcoming Gnome release in Fedora 9 I decided to drop
>>> fuse group.
>>>
>>> The main reason is that future Gnome VFS will use fuse as a backend,
>>> and we wil be forced to add all users into fuse group (if we allow
>>> them to use Gnome VFS) what will made the existence of fuse group
>>> useless..
>>>
>>> Any objections?
>> Is it really necessary to drop the fuse group for GNOME to do what it 
>> wants to do?  Sounds like it wont be.
> 
> If you don't drop the group requirement, then people simply won't get
> their gvfs mounts mounted via fuse in ~/.gvfs. Unless they accidentally
> stumble over the fact that they could become a member of the fuse
> group... it is not the end of the world, since gnome applications will
> happily work with gvfs and don't need those fuse mounts. But it makes
> fuse pretty much useless for the average user. 
> 

Does this mean GNOME gets gvfs and other non-GNOME desktops have to fend 
for themselves?

Warren