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gvfs package

  1. Bug #225361
  2. Comment #39

Comment 39 for bug 225361

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote : Re: [Bug 225361] Re: ~/.gvfs causes various errors

Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Just to be clear, mounting .gvfs somewhere other than $HOME doesn't
> solve the problem this bug's covering IMO, which is that the filesystem
> breaks the Unix norm that root can stat anything.

That is really just a contributing factor, not the problem. The problem
is that people are having utilities fail when they run into .gvfs
because root can't access it ( and this is by design, not a bug ). The
utilities in question shouldn't be messing with .gvfs in the first
place, so a simple solution is to move it somewhere they aren't going to
run into it.