Comment 5 for bug 326613

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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