Comment 93 for bug 885027

@Fou-Lu - Please, grow up. With much difficulty, he has removed the broken functionality/exploitable code.

@Thorsten - I have /media on FreeBSD 8.2. That's where KDE likes to mount things for me.

@Kovid - HAL was deprecated on linux, but not on BSD. Instead the issues in HAL were fixed, and the HAL we have on BSD is much improved compared with whatever HAL was last developed in the Linux kernel. As far as I can tell, GIO is working fine with HAL on my system, though I can't say I've done any programming with it; I've always found it sufficient to mount/unmount manually using the dolphin file browser. As it sounds like many distros have already been specifically patching your application before distributing it in their repos, perhaps it would be good to survey what various package managers are doing on Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, FreeBSD (it's in ports...), OpenSuse, etc. Perhaps a consensus can be found that you've overlooked.

Or maybe "a single binary that works everywhere without compiling" solution just isn't appropriate for the unix world. Certainly I make sure my users have a very good reason for installing anything from upstream sources on our network. If somethings in the repositories/ports collection, then there better be something seriously wrong with it to allow upgrading from somewhere else. I can certainly remember a few cases where the upstream developer was feigning ignorance while carefully crafting network security holes which package maintainers dutifully patched, until the project was finally excluded from the repos.