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branch master updated: doc: Add note to 'udisks-service'.


From: guix-commits
Subject: branch master updated: doc: Add note to 'udisks-service'.
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 04:27:26 -0400

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bricewge pushed a commit to branch master
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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master by this push:
     new 1b5d26c  doc: Add note to 'udisks-service'.
1b5d26c is described below

commit 1b5d26c967b17b635c88a094e010cd42a9afb220
Author: Brice Waegeneire <brice@waegenei.re>
AuthorDate: Sun May 24 17:06:11 2020 +0200

    doc: Add note to 'udisks-service'.
    
    * doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): Specify how to add file-systems
    utilities to 'udisks-service'.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 13e3c01..15e077a 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -16523,9 +16523,14 @@ Possible values are:
 
 @deffn {Scheme Procedure} udisks-service [#:udisks @var{udisks}]
 Return a service for @uref{https://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/,
-UDisks}, a @dfn{disk management} daemon that provides user interfaces with
-notifications and ways to mount/unmount disks.  Programs that talk to UDisks
-include the @command{udisksctl} command, part of UDisks, and GNOME Disks.
+UDisks}, a @dfn{disk management} daemon that provides user interfaces
+with notifications and ways to mount/unmount disks.  Programs that talk
+to UDisks include the @command{udisksctl} command, part of UDisks, and
+GNOME Disks.  Note that Udisks relies on the @command{mount} command, so
+it will only be able to use the file-system utilities installed in the
+system profile.  For example if you want to be able to mount NTFS
+file-systems in read and write fashion, you'll need to have
+@code{ntfs-3g} installed system-wide.
 @end deffn
 
 @deffn {Scheme Variable} colord-service-type



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