Re: how does mounting work?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Marco,

Marco van Hulten <address@hidden> skribis:

> I tried 'gvfs-mount', but now I'm quite sure it isn't that:
>
>
> $ gvfs-mount --list
> This tool has been deprecated, use 'gio mount' instead.
> See 'gio help mount' for more info.
>
> /home/marco/.guix-profile/bin/gvfs-mount: line 13: exec: gio: not found
>
>
> But this does look like something that wants fixing.  Maybe gvfs-mount
> is a wrong or an unnecessary dependency of some other package.

I just checked and glib:bin provides that ‘gio’ command.  I guess we
should fix ‘gvfs-mount’ to refer to ‘gio’ by its absolute file name.

In the meantime, you can run:

  guix environment --ad-hoc glib:bin -- gio mount

HTH!

Ludo’.