Re: isofs unhide option: troubles with Wine

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 14:49, Jeremy White wrote:
> Yes, that is what we have to do now.  So, when our product is
> installed, a user is presented with a confusing, and highly technical
> question, the gist of which is:  please give us your root password
> so we can do something you don't understand.  It's okay, trust us,
> really...<grin>

Sounds like a job for rpm triggers and install scripts.

> Further, I would argue that if you accept that unhide is a
> reasonable default for me to force into the fstab, then
> it is a reasonable default for the kernel to have.

I'd tend to agree, simply because the defaults ought to make things
possible rather than impossible. Question is - why was hide the default
and what was that decision based upon ?