Subject: bug#21142: Sshfs-fuse requires fuse

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 15:58:04 +0100

"Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" <[email-masked]> skribis:

> On 29-Nov-2015 12:19 pm, "Ludovic Courtès" <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> However, we explicitly patch it because in practice the ‘fusermount’
>> binary must be at least set-user-gid to fuse, per mount.fuse(8):
> [ . . . ]
>> On GuixSD, this is addressed by having ‘fusermount’ setuid-root in
>> /run/setuid-programs, so things just work.
>>
>> On foreign distros, there’s not much we can do: Users have to set add a
>> setuid ‘fusermount’ in their PATH.
>>
>> Closing this bug as “wontfix.”
>
> Ok, that's pretty clear then. Is this clear somewhere in the documentation?
> Otherwise I suppose we should fix that.

Regarding foreign distros, I suppose we could add a paragraph about FUSE
under “Application Setup”?  Would you like to submit a patch against
guix.texi?

Thanks,
Ludo’.