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Re: [PATCH] doc: Suggest installing gvfs.
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: [PATCH] doc: Suggest installing gvfs. |
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Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:34:26 +0100 |
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
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>> “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.
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>> 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.
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> 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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