Package request: split dbus into dbus-utils and dbus-daemon for dbus-broker

[norpol]

Project description

Splitting dbus into dbus-utils and dbus-daemon was done when Fedora introduced dbus-broker as a default.

Currently, when switching to services.dbus.implementation = "broker", previously installed tools such as dbus-monitor or dbus-update-activation-environment are missing.

Discussed at Discourse for setting dbus-broker the default.

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[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/would-it-be-feasible-to-make-dbus-broker-the-default-dbus-implementation/41760/18

[norpol]

Related tickets and PRs:

• dbus: Switch default implementation to broker #299812
• Use dbus broker per default #299476

[SuperSandro2000]

We don't really do split packages in nixpkgs and since the Daemon is likely neglige small we can just add the standard dbus package to systemPackages.

[SuperSandro2000]

I've just checked the package and the default plus the lib output is barely 1 MB big and the dbus-daemon executable alone is just 283KB. That really neglible size difference does not justify the added complexity of splitting the package into even more outputs.