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avahi package

  1. Bug #326613
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 326613

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Martin Pitt (pitti) 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.