Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@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’?
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.) -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC http://elephly.net
