On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 10:48:10AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 10:37 AM Kalev Lember <kalevlem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:31 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > > <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > >> > >> Instead the following chain pull in dbus-daemon: > >> > >> gnome-shell → gdm → /usr/bin/dbus-run-session i.e. dbus-daemon. > >> > >> dbus-daemon.rpm is not huge, but this does seems like a missed > >> minimization opportunity. Do we have any plan to drop this package > >> from the default install? Is dbus-run-session even used? > > > > > > Hi Zbyszek, > > > > All I know is that the dep was recently added: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gdm/c/bb7bcfdb36e64eaba91a6d5a8c47c4e1ef75d119?branch=master > > > > The commit message states "Make sure users have dbus-run-session installed > > since the greeter depends on it". I have no idea what's missing to migrate > > away from it :) > > Are there any plans for an equivalent of this program for dbus-broker? > Best I can tell, there isn't one...
AFAIK, it's just implementing an obsolete concept. The session bus is started by systemd --user, which is triggered by the pam stack when the user session is created. So it is generally fair to assume that the session bus always present. I don't know why gdm still uses the helper. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
