Re: [PATCH] doc: Suggest installing gvfs.

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> “gvfs” is useful for more than just GNOME.  For a long time I tried to
>> figure out why USB devices would not be mounted automatically in Xfce
>> and I ran gvfsd and the gvfs-* device monitor daemons manually — until
>> today when I understood that these daemons are supposed to be started
>> automatically if only the DBUS service files were found.
>>
>> We probably should add it to the “gnome” meta-package, and additionally
>> document in the manual that gvfs must be installed system-wide to allow
>> DBUS to find the service files and start the monitoring daemons on
>> demand.
>
> If it’s not specific to GNOME, what about adding it to
> ‘%desktop-services’?

How would that work?  “gvfs” doesn’t provide any services that would be
run as root.  It only comes with dbus service files; the daemons are
started as the current user on demand over dbus when certain libraries
are loaded.

Should I write dbus services for each of the daemons and extend the
dbus-root-service-type?  (I’m not sure how to do this but I could try.)

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Ricardo

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