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 -- Scott James Remnant [email protected] -- avahi-daemon (indirectly) depends on libx11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326613 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
