Bug 1217760 - exfat-fuse: please consider not installing this by default in Tumbleweed
Summary: exfat-fuse: please consider not installing this by default in Tumbleweed
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Patterns (show other bugs)
Version: Current
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Dominique Leuenberger
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Reported: 2023-12-04 08:08 UTC by Silviu C.
Modified: 2023-12-07 15:21 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Diff between current system and snapshot number 2 (90.17 KB, image/png)
2023-12-07 15:03 UTC, Silviu C.
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Diff between snapshot 2 and snapshot 1 - maybe? (90.17 KB, image/png)
2023-12-07 15:06 UTC, Silviu C.
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Description Silviu C. 2023-12-04 08:08:41 UTC
Hello,

For some time now the kernel has been shipping a proper driver for accessing devices formatted with exFAT that is quite faster than the fuse implementation.

Please consider not installing this by default.


Thanks.
Comment 1 Takashi Iwai 2023-12-06 08:47:05 UTC
Rather an adjustment of patterns, I suppose.
Comment 2 Dominique Leuenberger 2023-12-07 11:31:45 UTC
A default Tumbleweed install (using GNOME or KDE desktop) both do not auto-install fuse-exfat

As it's unclear how you installed you system and what options you picked, it's close to impossible to identify why you got fuse-exfat installed (exfat-fuse, as mentioned in the subject, does not exist as package in tumbleweed)

Can you please give some more details about your installation settings?
Comment 3 Silviu C. 2023-12-07 15:02:02 UTC
Hello,

As far as I recall, the only thing I did during install was to go into the software selection and tell it to not install KDE PIM and KDE Games.

I'm attaching screenshots that I think are interesting. It shows a diff between current system and snapshot number 2 which was right after install.

As I read it, the /etc/filesystems file contained the exfat-fuse entry at the point when snapshot 2 was made. Currently, the file does not contain that entry.
Comment 4 Silviu C. 2023-12-07 15:03:06 UTC
Created attachment 871200 [details]
Diff between current system and snapshot number 2
Comment 5 Silviu C. 2023-12-07 15:06:03 UTC
Created attachment 871201 [details]
Diff between snapshot 2 and snapshot 1  - maybe?
Comment 6 Dominique Leuenberger 2023-12-07 15:19:48 UTC
(In reply to Silviu C. from comment #3)

> As I read it, the /etc/filesystems file contained the exfat-fuse entry at
> the point when snapshot 2 was made. Currently, the file does not contain
> that entry.

that was only a stale config file - but nothing that actually installed the fuse-exfat package; and that stale file has since been fixed

r279 | anag+factory | 2023-11-29 20:18:26 | b0ed2191d6604fa259382de0c05b69ca | 2.39.2 | rq1129552

- Remove /etc/filesystem, the content is outdated
  (/etc cleanup, [jsc#PED-240])


So in fact it seem we already cleaned up what you were after.
Comment 7 Silviu C. 2023-12-07 15:21:05 UTC
The actual package name is "fuse-exfat".