avahi-daemon (indirectly) depends on libx11

Martin: is there any way that we can make the ConsoleKit dependency a recommends or suggests; likewise any way to stop ConsoleKit depending on X11 like this?

It does somewhat defeat the object of the dbus-x11 split

The consolekit dependency of d-bus is currently necessary to implement the "at_console" d-bus policy. Quite a few packages still use this, unfortunately, e. g. on my system

$ grep at_console /etc/dbus-1/system.d/*
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf: <policy at_console="true">
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf: <policy at_console="true">
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/newprinternotification.conf: <policy at_console="true">
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf: <policy at_console="true">

However, I have no objection to dropping the depends to a recommends. If d-bus is installed without consolekit, then the at_console policies will break, i. e. you couldn't use NetworkManager frontends as normal user any more. But that might not be a concern for these environments.

Not avahi's fault, closing avahi task.

We shouldn't change consolekit either, it directly links to libX11.so for ck-get-x11-display-device.

On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 14:00 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote:

> The consolekit dependency of d-bus is currently necessary to implement
> the "at_console" d-bus policy. Quite a few packages still use this,
> unfortunately, e. g. on my system
>
> $ grep at_console /etc/dbus-1/system.d/*
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf: <policy at_console="true">
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf: <policy at_console="true">
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/newprinternotification.conf: <policy at_console="true">
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf: <policy at_console="true">
>
> However, I have no objection to dropping the depends to a recommends. If
> d-bus is installed without consolekit, then the at_console policies will
> break, i. e. you couldn't use NetworkManager frontends as normal user
> any more. But that might not be a concern for these environments.
>
That doesn't seem unreasonable, as long as the breakage magically goes
away if you install consolekit again. That's what Recommends are for,
after all ;-)

You can uninstall them, but you might lose functionality by doing so.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant [2009-07-16 18:08 -0000]:
> That doesn't seem unreasonable, as long as the breakage magically goes
> away if you install consolekit again.

Yes, it does.

/usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-session.d/pam-foreground-compat.ck just
creates /var/run/console/<user> stamps which D-BUS checks for to grant
at_console. If they aren't there (either because you aren't at the
console, or CK isn't installed), at_console will be denied. As soon as
you install CK and log out/in, it'll come back.

Martin
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This bug was fixed in the package dbus - 1.2.16-0ubuntu2

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dbus (1.2.16-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * Drop consolekit to a recommends, you almost certainly want it installed
    but it's ok to remove it if you don't want libx11 on your system.
    LP: #326613.

 -- Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:06:47 +0100