udisks1 vs udisks2 улучшения продолжаются

http://www.linux.org.ru/forum/general/7582812

Короче, похоже, все опять поломали и все программы придется переписывать на udisks2, которое не совместимо с udisks1.

http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/udisks2-another-loss-for-linux/

Кроме того, исчезнет папка /media. Вместо нее будет /run/media с подпапками для каждого пользователя.

Author David Zeuthen explains his reasons for rewriting udisks here. To put it simply, it’s all about Gnome. It appears that increasingly udisks is becoming an internal Gnome component and less a universal Linux tool, certainly not command-line friendly. That means there is no real replacement for hal without adopting almost complete desktop environments. This is not a good state of affairs for Linux development. I haven’t tried it yet, but it will be interesting to see what a mess udisks2 makes of systems which aren’t running Gnome, since the udisks2 author seems to barely consider such use, and even works against it. udisks v1 certainly proved difficult enough with many non-Gnome users having endless polkit and consolekit issues. Rather than addressing this, udisks v2 aims to worsen it.

David Zeuthen seems to have no use for the Linux command line either – new in version 2′s docs for the command line tool:

This program is not intended to be used by scripts or other programs – options/commands may change in incompatible ways in the future even in maintenance releases. Scripts and/or other programs should either use the D-Bus APIs of udisks2-daemon(8) or native low-level commands such as mount(8).

Want to write a quick script to mount a device? Forget it, according to David Zeuthen – that’s not to be done in Linux. While this update may make Gnome’s Disks utility prettier, it undermines the core philosophy of Linux, which is that programs interoperate using simple command line interfaces and text streams. Apparently, the vision here is to make it as closed and convoluted as Windows.