Quoting Hendrik Boom (hendrik@???):
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 08:54:44AM -0400, fsmithred wrote:

> > Pretty cool trick. I tried it and got mixed results. I'm running without
> > libsystemd0 here, so I can't have gvfs-daemons. That means there's no
> > trash icon on the desktop and removable drives don't show up on the
> > desktop when they're plugged it.
> >
> > With a dummy equivs libsystemd0, I get a trash icon that works, but the
> > removable drives don't show up on the desktop. When I remove the dummy
> > package and install the real libsystemd0, removables show up and
> > mount/eject work as expected.
>
> So it does look as if libsystemd0 does do something.

That doesn't logically follow. My guesstimate is that some GNOME
plumbing is checking for some library function before it offers
the user 'removable drives [...] on the desktop'. For libsystemd0
library functions to _do_ anything reportedly requires systemd be
present to be reached below the library, i.e., the lib is just interface
glue.

If you really want to know for certain, read the calling and answering
source code. (I won't bother, because I really have no interest at all
in GNOME, and prefer to avoid it.)

GNOME is a brittle dependency hairball. Surely that fact is clear, if
nothing else is.

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