bug#33325: xpra doesn't work out-of-the-box (implicit dependencies)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Rutger and all,

Our Xpra package seems to not be usable directly without installing
additional items:

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$ guix environment --ad-hoc xpra --pure -- xpra start :100
Warning: Xorg binary not found, assuming the wrapper is needed!
Entering daemon mode; any further errors will be reported to:
  /run/user/1000/xpra/:100.log
$ cat /run/user/1000/xpra/:100.log
2018-11-09 14:37:42,986 Error: cannot enable SSH socket upgrades:
2018-11-09 14:37:42,986  No module named paramiko
2018-11-09 14:37:42,987 cannot access python uinput module:
2018-11-09 14:37:42,987  No module named uinput
2018-11-09 14:37:42,995 Error adding xauth entry for :100
2018-11-09 14:37:42,995  using command "xauth -f /home/ludo/.Xauthority add 
:100 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 7c2c66d9295545cfb1c27b1109b4b54e":
[mi] Extension "Composite" is not recognized
2018-11-09 14:37:42,995  [Errno 2] No such file or directory
[mi] Only the following extensions can be run-time enabled:
[mi]    Generic Event Extension
[mi]    MIT-SHM
[mi]    XTEST
[mi]    XINERAMA
[mi]    XFIXES
[mi]    RENDER
[mi]    RANDR
[mi]    COMPOSITE
[mi]    DAMAGE
[mi]    MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[mi]    DOUBLE-BUFFER
[mi]    RECORD
[mi]    DPMS
[mi]    X-Resource
[mi]    XVideo
[mi]    XVideo-MotionCompensation
[mi]    GLX
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
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No protocol specified
No protocol specified
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On a foreign distro I see we’re also lacking a reference to
‘dbus-launch’:

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address@hidden ~]$ guix environment --ad-hoc xpra --pure -- xpra start :100
Warning: Xorg binary not found, assuming the wrapper is needed!
Entering daemon mode; any further errors will be reported to:
  /run/user/10218/xpra/:100.log
address@hidden ~]$ cat /run/user/10218/xpra/:100.log
2018-11-09 15:10:06,064 Error: cannot enable SSH socket upgrades:
2018-11-09 15:10:06,064  No module named paramiko
2018-11-09 15:10:06,066 cannot access python uinput module:
2018-11-09 15:10:06,066  No module named uinput
2018-11-09 15:10:06,079 Error adding xauth entry for :100
2018-11-09 15:10:06,080  using command "xauth -f /home/courtes/.Xauthority add 
:100 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 9519cb23f6a348eda7f068d9317a664c":
2018-11-09 15:10:06,080  [Errno 2] No such file or directory
[mi] Extension "Composite" is not recognized
[mi] Only the following extensions can be run-time enabled:
[mi]    Generic Event Extension
[mi]    MIT-SHM
[mi]    XTEST
[mi]    XINERAMA
[mi]    XFIXES
[mi]    RENDER
[mi]    RANDR
[mi]    COMPOSITE
[mi]    DAMAGE
[mi]    MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[mi]    DOUBLE-BUFFER
[mi]    RECORD
[mi]    DPMS
[mi]    X-Resource
[mi]    XVideo
[mi]    XVideo-MotionCompensation
[mi]    GLX
2018-11-09 15:10:06,472 Warning: some of the sockets are in an unknown state:
2018-11-09 15:10:06,473  /home/courtes/.xpra/devel13-100
2018-11-09 15:10:06,473  please wait as we allow the socket probing to timeout
2018-11-09 15:10:12,502 created unix domain socket: 
/home/courtes/.xpra/devel13-100
/gnu/store/rbrandv7anzjxqkr40d7fkanzssslk4b-bash-minimal-4.4.19/bin/sh: 
dbus-launch: command not found
dbus-launch failed to start using command 'dbus-launch --close-stderr':

 exit code is 127

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Thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
Ludo’.