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’?