Re: pkg/50075: Making dbus actually work on FreeBSD, DragonFly, and probably more

[David Shao <davshao%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/50075; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Shao <davshao%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/50075: Making dbus actually work on FreeBSD, DragonFly, and
 probably more
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:09:36 -0700

 On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Richard PALO <richard%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/50075; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: Richard PALO <richard%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: pkg/50075: Making dbus actually work on FreeBSD, DragonFly, and
 >  probably more
 > Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:55:54 +0200
 
 >
 >  see discussion "DBUS home fouled up" from 14/09/2014 on pkgsrc-users@
 >
 >  --
 >  Richard PALO
 
 These days I do not think that systems using /var/run/dbus and
 /var/db/dbus versus those that wish to have these directories in user
 space can share the same dbus shell script to manage the dbus daemon,
 which is just as well since there are already two dbus.sh files.  As
 opposed to old days when one would see instructions to set the user
 and group ownership of /var/run/dbus, these days systems are happy
 with the default root:root or root:wheel.  Thus for these use cases
 the code to set ownership and permissions needs to be commented out.
 But there is another smf/dbus.sh file to retain this flexibility if
 needed.
 
 But to summarize the big picture from my perspective, without
 something similar to these patches, which at least don't further touch
 the original dbus source code, there is no Xfce4 functionality on
 either FreeBSD 10.1 or DragonFly using pkgsrc.  Actually there is an
 inaccurate error message complaining about ConsoleKit when all that is
 really needed is a functioning dbus.