On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:55:37AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bob" <bob@???>
>
> > Which desktops work without systemd?
> > A list would be nice.
>
> For all of you stating that such-and-such desktop works without systemd,
> I have a couple questions:
>
> 1) Does usb auto-mounting work? (or at least usb click-to-mount)

In a multiuser system, for whom should automounting work?
For the user who enters the mount command.

> 2)  Do music players (like Rhythmbox, Guayadeque, Quodlibet) properly
>     recognize a usb stick as removable media which they can copy/transcode
>     files to?

After I mountr it, they should recognise it as a file system which they can copy/transcode files to.

Every time I've had automounting on Debian, it went wrong -- mounted
for the wrong user or for root only, wherupon I had to su, unmount, and
the mount as myself.

It's bad enough without automounting that I have to guess what /dev/sd*
it's mounted as. Though ls /dev/sd* is enough of a help for this.

Automounting by voloume label, as specified in /etc/fstab, should be
noncontroversial. But it should allow different volumes to be
specified as mounted on the same mount point (but not simultaneously,
of course) I'd like this for my multiple indpendent backup volumes.

-- hendrik

>
> I ask because I had trouble with that sort of thing in the past, when using
> Debian Jessie without systemd.
>
> -Rob

-- hendrik