From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Suggest installing gvfs. Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:34:26 +0100 Message-ID: <87a8ch29vx.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20161128184755.17106-1-rekado@elephly.net> <87h96rl37m.fsf@gnu.org> <87shqb1byq.fsf@elephly.net> <8760n6ndh3.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39608) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBqz1-0001iZ-DW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:34:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBqz0-0002JJ-G5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:34:39 -0500 In-reply-to: <8760n6ndh3.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo Wurmus 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.) -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC http://elephly.net