MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for dbus-x11 [2]:

This package, originally from 2016, seems to be unneeded as per last
user comment in 2022 and pinned comment from 2019.

It has a confusing and therefore wrong name.
It seems it was used to allow running GUI applications as superuser.

While such practice is strongly discouraged, in favor of having
applications support PolicyKit-sanctioned actions, still there are
desktop environment-specific solutions to run GUI applications as full
superuser.
(Pinned comment links to Arch wiki article about this topic.)

Also this package is on an outdated devel version of dbus from
2022-09.

I think it is time to retire this package.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/dbus-x11/

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