#544147 provide means for disabling autostarted dbus system services

Package:
dbus
Source:
dbus
Description:
simple interprocess messaging system (system message bus)
Submitter:
martin f krafft
Date:
2010-04-11 14:30:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#544147#5
Date:
2009-08-29 07:34:37 UTC
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To:
Thanks to something that just seems like dependency flood to me,
I now have to install a lot of packages I don't really want, such as
consolekit. I don't care about seats or sessions, but I care about
limiting the unnecessary resources that are used by my machine.

Since I cannot purge consolekit anymore, it would be nice if debconf
could at least ask me if I wanted to use it in the first place, and
prevent the starting of console-kit-daemon in case I don't.
#544147#10
Date:
2009-08-29 23:46:38 UTC
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martin f krafft wrote:

console-kit-daemon is only started on demand if other applications request it,
so maybe you should revisit the apps that need CK.
Disabling CK when other services need it doesn't sound a good idea to me.

I'm closing this bug as I don't think it makes sense to add a debconf prompt and
won't implement it.

Michael
#544147#11
Date:
2009-08-30 06:42:41 UTC
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also sprach Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> [2009.08.30.0146 +0200]:

/etc/X11/Xsession.d/90consolekit starts ck-launch-session.

Anyway, how do I find out what uses consolekit?

What would they need it for?
#544147#16
Date:
2009-09-08 09:44:03 UTC
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ck-launch-session is in some loop and causing crazy high loads. I don't
care what it does. I don't want it.

I tried to remove consolekit and it seems it wants to take Xorg along
with it, which is nuts.

I have since cleaned up /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ from that crap. Though
still I don't understand why I can't just simply remove a optional
package without breaking a normal X Debian box.
#544147#21
Date:
2009-09-20 21:42:58 UTC
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reopen 544147
thanks

This is not resolved by closing the bug. hal and policykit depend on
consolekit, but I don't *want* that functionality. I appreciate HAL,
and if policykit were implemented right, that would make sense too,
but I don't need consolekit. I don't have anyone else sitting on my
chair^W seat, and I don't care about XDG sessions. I just want to be
able to use X with a minimal window manager and some terminals, and
I'd like to avoid the feature creep that freedesktop.org brings.
#544147#30
Date:
2009-10-26 22:50:41 UTC
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reassign 544147 dbus
forcemerge 544483 544147
thanks

martin f krafft wrote:

consolekit (or more specifically all dbus activated system services) can be
disabled, albeit in a rather hackish way, see my comment at [1]
I guess what you want is best handled in #544483, so I'm reassigning and merging
those two bugs.

Michael


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544483#42