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Re: [PATCH] doc: Suggest installing gvfs.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [PATCH] doc: Suggest installing gvfs. |
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Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:55:05 +0100 |
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Hi Ricardo!
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> 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?
>
> This patch extends DBus with gvfs, since you said gvfs is a set of DBus
> services (I didn’t check). If gvfs provides DBus service definition
> files, then DBus will automatically pick them and start the services on
> demand.
>
>> “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.
>
> OK, so that was the wrong approach.
>
> In that case, what about adding the package to the global profile like
> this:
>
> diff --git a/gnu/services/desktop.scm b/gnu/services/desktop.scm
> index 7555780..5d02bd0 100644
> --- a/gnu/services/desktop.scm
> +++ b/gnu/services/desktop.scm
> @@ -753,6 +753,10 @@ with the administrator's password."
> (screen-locker-service slock)
> (screen-locker-service xlockmore "xlock")
>
> + ;; GVFS is used by both GNOME and Xfce. It provides DBus services
> + ;; started on behalf of users, and those daemons need to be in
> $PATH.
> + (simple-service 'gvfs profile-service-type gvfs)
> +
> ;; The D-Bus clique.
> (avahi-service)
> (wicd-service)
Should we do this? I would test it but I don’t know how.
Ludo’.
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