Apparently the udisks devs took it upon themselves to violate the FHS and moved the path for automounted media from /media/$DEVICE_NAME to /run/media/$USER/$DEVICE_NAME.
This is a user-facing change that I can’t find primary documentation for with google, which means the developers are automatically in the wrong, even if it is a good change.
Now, let’s talk about some things this change does (The first three are the developer’s claimed features):
-(n+1)” or something straightforward like that?
It wouldn’t be so aggravating if it weren’t part of a stream of douchey autocratic decisions the the gnome and RedHat contingent among the FreeDesktop folks have been making during the transition off of HAL, that harm everyone but the narrow use case they envision while making the decision. This is the same crew that has been forcing the *Kits on us (PolicyKit, ConsoleKit, DeviceKit, etc.), which have all made things less transparent, and power users’s lives more difficult. Most of these changes seem to be dedicated to breaking features accessible from the command line or other simple interfaces and instead integrating them into one of the bloated libraries attached to Gnome and QT, just to make things easier for the big desktop environments, which I find philosophically objectionable … in the words of Doug McIlroy himself, “This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together.”
There is a ragier condemation of it here that fails to bring in the UNIX philosophy argument, and an obnoxious but partly correct rebuttal from someone involved here if you would like to peruse the politics.
