From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Suggest installing gvfs. Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 23:22:37 +0100 Message-ID: <87shqb1byq.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20161128184755.17106-1-rekado@elephly.net> <87h96rl37m.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]:46060) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBUK2-00062n-Ea for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:22:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBUK1-0005Tc-7C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:22:50 -0500 In-reply-to: <87h96rl37m.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: > >> * gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl: Add gvfs to the system-wide list of >> packages. >> --- >> gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl | 3 ++- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl b/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl >> index 82687e7..21b4563 100644 >> --- a/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl >> +++ b/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl >> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ >> >> (use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss)) >> (use-service-modules desktop) >> -(use-package-modules certs) >> +(use-package-modules certs gnome) >> >> (operating-system >> (host-name "antelope") >> @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ >> >> ;; This is where we specify system-wide packages. >> (packages (cons* nss-certs ;for HTTPS access >> + gvfs ;for user mounts > > What about adding it to the ‘gnome’ meta-package instead? (That > meta-package gets installed in the global profile by > ‘gnome-desktop-service-type’.) I’m sorry, I didn’t see your email before my reply to Mathieu and the my decision to push! “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. What do you think? If that’s okay I’ll prepare a patch for this. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC http://elephly.net