Re: pkg/55209 (Guide fails when copying example rc.d files)

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/55209; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/55209 (Guide fails when copying example rc.d files)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:13:32 -0400

 The example for Xfce in the guide is rather outdated. famd and hal
 aren't required anymore. (A hint is that the xfce4 meta package doesn't
 pull in either of them as indirect dependencies.) It's also not
 strictly necessary to start dbus as a system-wide service; if it's not
 already running, it'll be started automatically under the specific
 user's account when Xfce initiates. (Which means is used to start dbus
 is a matter of a particular user's preference. I don't run it as a
 system-wide service, as I don't need to.) On the other hand, some users
 probably would want to enable polkitd, another current depenency of
 Xfce.
 
 (The guide is also wrong about the command to start the DE that's
 placed in .xinitrc. It should be "startxfce4", not "xfce4-session".)
 
 Dave