On 26/01/2017 22:51, Simon McVittie wrote: > If you unmask the unit, and change the apt configuration snippet that I > mentioned in a previous mail to this bug so it runs > "if ...; then GIO_USE_VFS=local appstream-cli refresh-cache > /dev/null..." > then that should avoid the unwanted daemons without either producing > error messages, or preventing the use of gvfs if some other program you > run as root actually needs it.
I confirm that the GIO_USE_VFS=local environment variable prevents the creation of the gvfs processes, even when the gvfs-daemon.service unit is unmasked. Thanks again, -- Laurent.