diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/xfce/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/xfce/default.nix
index 03e0def7853..808266ec82b 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/xfce/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/xfce/default.nix
@@ -5,21 +5,13 @@ callPackage = newScope (deps // xfce_self);
 deps = rec { # xfce-global dependency overrides should be here
   inherit (pkgs.gnome) libglade libwnck vte gtksourceview;
   inherit (pkgs.perlPackages) URI;
-
-  # The useful bits from ‘gnome-disk-utility’.
-  libgdu = callPackage ./support/libgdu.nix { };
-
-  # Gvfs is required by Thunar for the trash feature and for volume
-  # mounting.  Should use the one from Gnome, but I don't want to mess
-  # with the Gnome packages (or pull in a zillion Gnome dependencies).
-  gvfs = callPackage ./support/gvfs.nix { };
 };
 
 xfce_self = rec { # the lines are very long but it seems better than the even-odd line approach
 
   #### NixOS support
 
-  inherit (deps) gvfs;
+  inherit (pkgs) gvfs;
   xinitrc = "${xfce4session}/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc";
 
   #### CORE                 from "mirror://xfce/src/xfce/${p_name}/${ver_maj}/${name}.tar.bz2"
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/xfce/support/gvfs.nix b/pkgs/desktops/xfce/support/gvfs.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index af70aea755a..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/desktops/xfce/support/gvfs.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, glib, dbus, intltool, udev, libgdu, fuse
-, libxml2, libxslt, docbook_xsl, libgphoto2, libtool }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "gvfs-1.14.2";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://gnome/sources/gvfs/1.14/${name}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "1g4ghyf45jg2ajdkv2d972hbckyjh3d9jdrppai85pl9pk2dmfy3";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs =
-    [ pkgconfig glib dbus.libs intltool udev libgdu fuse libxml2 libxslt
-      docbook_xsl libgphoto2 libtool
-    ];
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Virtual Filesystem support library (for Xfce)";
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.eelco ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/xfce/support/libgdu-only.patch b/pkgs/desktops/xfce/support/libgdu-only.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c5873c71681..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/desktops/xfce/support/libgdu-only.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,144 +0,0 @@
-diff -ru -x '*~' gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1-orig/configure.ac gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1/configure.ac
---- gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1-orig/configure.ac	2010-03-22 16:54:09.000000000 +0100
-+++ gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1/configure.ac	2011-09-06 02:52:09.000000000 +0200
-@@ -106,17 +106,6 @@
- # GNOME
- # *****
- 
--GNOME_COMMON_INIT
--GNOME_DOC_INIT
--GNOME_DEBUG_CHECK
--GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS([maximum])
--GNOME_MAINTAINER_MODE_DEFINES
--
--AC_ARG_ENABLE(gtk-doc, AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-gtk-doc],
--  [use gtk-doc to build documentation [default=yes]]),,
--  enable_gtk_doc=yes)
--GTK_DOC_CHECK([1.3])
--
- # ***************************
- # Check for required packages
- # ***************************
-@@ -130,7 +119,6 @@
- UNIQUE_REQUIRED=1.0
- LIBNOTIFY_REQUIRED=0.3.0
- NAUTILUS_REQUIRED=2.24.0
--AVAHI_UI_REQUIRED=0.6.25
- 
- UDISKS_REQUIRED=1.0.0
- UDISKS_NEXT_ABI_INCOMPATIBLE_VERSION=1.1.0
-@@ -144,13 +132,7 @@
- PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GIO_UNIX2, [gio-unix-2.0 >= $GIO2_REQUIRED])
- PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTHREAD2, [gthread-2.0 >= $GLIB2_REQUIRED])
- PKG_CHECK_MODULES(DBUS_GLIB, [dbus-glib-1 >= $DBUS_GLIB_REQUIRED])
--PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK2, [gtk+-2.0 >= $GTK2_REQUIRED])
--PKG_CHECK_MODULES(UNIQUE, [unique-1.0 >= $UNIQUE_REQUIRED])
--PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBNOTIFY, [libnotify  >= $LIBNOTIFY_REQUIRED])
- PKG_CHECK_MODULES(UDISKS, [udisks  >= $UDISKS_REQUIRED udisks < $UDISKS_NEXT_ABI_INCOMPATIBLE_VERSION])
--PKG_CHECK_MODULES(X11, [x11])
--PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBATASMART, [libatasmart >= 0.14])
--PKG_CHECK_MODULES(AVAHI_UI, [avahi-ui >= $AVAHI_UI_REQUIRED])
- 
- # *************
- # Remote Access
-@@ -183,21 +165,10 @@
- AC_SUBST(GNOME_KEYRING_CFLAGS)
- AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_GNOME_KEYRING, [test "$have_gnome_keyring" = "yes"])
- 
--# *************
--# Documentation
--# *************
--
--AC_PATH_PROG(SCROLLKEEPER_CONFIG, scrollkeeper-config,no)
--if test x$SCROLLKEEPER_CONFIG = xno; then
--  AC_MSG_ERROR(Couldn't find scrollkeeper-config, please install the scrollkeeper package)
--fi
--
- # ********************
- # Internationalization
- # ********************
- 
--IT_PROG_INTLTOOL([$INTLTOOL_REQUIRED])
--
- GETTEXT_PACKAGE=gnome-disk-utility
- AC_SUBST([GETTEXT_PACKAGE])
- AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
-diff -ru -x '*~' gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1-orig/doc/Makefile.am gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1/doc/Makefile.am
---- gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1-orig/doc/Makefile.am	2009-12-02 20:52:38.000000000 +0100
-+++ gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1/doc/Makefile.am	2011-09-06 02:17:15.000000000 +0200
-@@ -70,9 +70,7 @@
- 	Makefile.in			\
- 	$(NULL)
- 
--include $(top_srcdir)/gtk-doc.make
--
--CLEANFILES +=   *~						\
-+CLEANFILES =   *~						\
- 		gnome-disk-utility-scan*			\
- 		gnome-disk-utility.args				\
- 		gnome-disk-utility.hierarchy			\
-@@ -91,4 +89,4 @@
- 		$(NULL)
- 
- # Version information for marking the documentation
--EXTRA_DIST += version.xml.in
-+EXTRA_DIST = version.xml.in
-diff -ru -x '*~' gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1-orig/gtk-doc.make gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1/gtk-doc.make
---- gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1-orig/gtk-doc.make	2010-03-16 00:08:20.000000000 +0100
-+++ gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1/gtk-doc.make	2011-09-06 02:15:33.000000000 +0200
-@@ -4,15 +4,9 @@
- # Everything below here is generic #
- ####################################
- 
--if GTK_DOC_USE_LIBTOOL
--GTKDOC_CC = $(LIBTOOL) --tag=CC --mode=compile $(CC) $(INCLUDES) $(AM_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS)
--GTKDOC_LD = $(LIBTOOL) --tag=CC --mode=link $(CC) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(AM_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)
--GTKDOC_RUN = $(LIBTOOL) --mode=execute
--else
- GTKDOC_CC = $(CC) $(INCLUDES) $(AM_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS)
- GTKDOC_LD = $(CC) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(AM_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)
- GTKDOC_RUN =
--endif
- 
- # We set GPATH here; this gives us semantics for GNU make
- # which are more like other make's VPATH, when it comes to
-@@ -49,22 +43,7 @@
- 
- CLEANFILES = $(SCANOBJ_FILES) $(REPORT_FILES) $(DOC_STAMPS)
- 
--if ENABLE_GTK_DOC
--if GTK_DOC_BUILD_HTML
--HTML_BUILD_STAMP=html-build.stamp
--else
--HTML_BUILD_STAMP=
--endif
--if GTK_DOC_BUILD_PDF
--PDF_BUILD_STAMP=pdf-build.stamp
--else
--PDF_BUILD_STAMP=
--endif
--
--all-local: $(HTML_BUILD_STAMP) $(PDF_BUILD_STAMP)
--else
- all-local:
--endif
- 
- docs: $(HTML_BUILD_STAMP) $(PDF_BUILD_STAMP)
- 
-diff -ru -x '*~' gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1-orig/help/Makefile.am gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1/help/Makefile.am
---- gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1-orig/help/Makefile.am	2009-09-23 20:35:01.000000000 +0200
-+++ gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1/help/Makefile.am	2011-09-06 02:18:13.000000000 +0200
-@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
--include $(top_srcdir)/gnome-doc-utils.make
- dist-hook: doc-dist-hook
- 
- DOC_MODULE = palimpsest
-diff -ru -x '*~' gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1-orig/Makefile.am gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1/Makefile.am
---- gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1-orig/Makefile.am	2010-03-16 00:12:39.000000000 +0100
-+++ gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1/Makefile.am	2011-09-06 02:17:34.000000000 +0200
-@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--SUBDIRS = src data doc help po
-+SUBDIRS = src data
- 
- EXTRA_DIST = \
- 	autogen.sh		\
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/xfce/support/libgdu.nix b/pkgs/desktops/xfce/support/libgdu.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 32835f0434a..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/desktops/xfce/support/libgdu.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, gnome, pkgconfig, glib, dbus_glib, intltool, udev, gtk
-, libnotify, udisks, libatasmart, avahi
-, autoconf, automake, libtool }:
-
-let version = "2.30.1"; in
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "libgdu-${version}";
-  
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://gnome/sources/gnome-disk-utility/2.30/gnome-disk-utility-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "df9b336c780b5d77ceda54e96f7c37c67645f5e73d48754ba0a8efba7c1836d7";
-  };
-
-  # Only build libgdu, not all that Gnome crap.
-  patches = [ ./libgdu-only.patch ];
-
-  buildInputs =
-    [ pkgconfig glib dbus_glib udisks
-      autoconf automake libtool
-    ];
-
-  preConfigure =
-    ''
-      substituteInPlace src/gdu/Makefile.am --replace /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces ${udisks}/share/dbus-1/interfaces
-      autoreconf -f -i
-    '';
-
-  postConfigure = "cd src/gdu";
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Xfce/Gvfs support library for mounting filesystems";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gvfs/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gvfs/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..067d3dc9383
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gvfs/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, intltool, libtool
+, glib, dbus, udev, udisks2, libgcrypt
+, libgphoto2, avahi, libarchive, fuse, libcdio
+, libxml2, libxslt, docbook_xsl
+, lightWeight ? true, gnome, samba, makeWrapper }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "gvfs-1.14.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnome/sources/gvfs/1.14/${name}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "1g4ghyf45jg2ajdkv2d972hbckyjh3d9jdrppai85pl9pk2dmfy3";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig intltool libtool ];
+
+  buildInputs =
+    [ makeWrapper glib dbus.libs udev udisks2 libgcrypt
+      libgphoto2 avahi libarchive fuse libcdio
+      libxml2 libxslt docbook_xsl
+      # ToDo: a ligther version of libsoup to have FTP/HTTP support?
+    ] ++ stdenv.lib.optionals (!lightWeight) (with gnome; [
+      gtk libsoup libgnome_keyring gconf samba
+      # ToDo: not working and probably useless until gnome3 from x-updates
+    ]);
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  # ToDo: one probably should specify schemas for samba and others here
+  fixupPhase = ''
+    wrapProgram $out/libexec/gvfsd --set GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR "$out/share/glib-2.0/schemas"
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Virtual Filesystem support library" + stdenv.lib.optionalString lightWeight " (light-weight)";
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libgphoto2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libgphoto2/default.nix
index 3edc8d0ac6c..e1feda6abd4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libgphoto2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libgphoto2/default.nix
@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libusb, libtool, libexif, libjpeg, gettext}:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libusb1, libtool, libexif, libjpeg, gettext, libxml2 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "libgphoto2-2.4.14";
+  name = "libgphoto2-2.5.1.1";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/gphoto/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "14h20s0kwqr1nsj90dgjwzs0r3h7z1cpmnivrikd0rrg4m2jvcsr";
+    sha256 = "057dnyrxr0vy2zs4fhscpig42kvlsy9fg4gj20fhvjcvp3pak8xl";
   };
-  
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig gettext ];
-  buildInputs = [ libtool libjpeg ];
+  buildInputs = [ libtool libjpeg libxml2 ];
 
   # These are mentioned in the Requires line of libgphoto's pkg-config file.
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ libusb libexif ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ libusb1 libexif ];
+
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-I${libxml2}/include/libxml2"; # bogus detection again
 
   meta = {
     homepage = http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/;
@@ -20,10 +22,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     longDescription = ''
       This is the library backend for gphoto2. It contains the code for PTP,
       MTP, and other vendor specific protocols for controlling and transferring data
-      from digital cameras. 
+      from digital cameras.
     '';
     # XXX: the homepage claims LGPL, but several src files are lgpl21Plus
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl21Plus; 
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl21Plus;
     platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; unix;
     maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ jcumming ];
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/1-default.nix
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/default.nix
rename to pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/1-default.nix
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/2-default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/2-default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..28cdbe18978
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/2-default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, intltool
+, expat, acl, udev, glib, libatasmart, polkit
+, libxslt, docbook_xsl, utillinux, mdadm
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "udisks-2.1.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://udisks.freedesktop.org/releases/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "1a0mipihilscv9jwy59xrqn2kkri9p12a09anpjdld83l7jhh0ii";
+  };
+
+  patches = [ ./force-path.patch ];
+
+  # FIXME remove /var/run/current-system/sw/* references
+  # FIXME add references to parted, cryptsetup, etc (see the sources)
+  postPatch =
+    ''
+      substituteInPlace src/main.c --replace \
+        "@path@" \
+        "${utillinux}/bin:${mdadm}/sbin:/var/run/current-system/sw/bin:/var/run/current-system/sw/sbin"
+    '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig intltool ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ expat acl udev glib libatasmart polkit ]; # in closure anyway
+
+  buildInputs = [ libxslt docbook_xsl ];
+
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--localstatedir=/var"
+    "--with-systemdsystemunitdir=$(out)/etc/systemd/systemd"
+    "--with-udevdir=$(out)/lib/udev"
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/udisks;
+    description = "A daemon and command-line utility for querying and manipulating storage devices";
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/force-path.patch b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/force-path.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..16c7ea5322f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/force-path.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff -ruN udisks-2.1.0.orig/src/main.c udisks-2.1.0/src/main.c
+--- udisks-2.1.0.orig/src/main.c	2013-04-02 10:43:41.629332135 +0000
++++ udisks-2.1.0/src/main.c	2013-04-02 11:04:55.635342823 +0000
+@@ -140,8 +140,7 @@
+         }
+     }
+ 
+-  if (g_getenv ("PATH") == NULL)
+-    g_setenv ("PATH", "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin", TRUE);
++  g_setenv ("PATH", "@path@", TRUE);
+ 
+   udisks_notice ("udisks daemon version %s starting", PACKAGE_VERSION);
+ 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 17dc34cd046..1ae4a08c814 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3995,6 +3995,8 @@ let
 
   gts = callPackage ../development/libraries/gts { };
 
+  gvfs = callPackage ../development/libraries/gvfs { };
+
   gwenhywfar = callPackage ../development/libraries/gwenhywfar { };
 
   # TODO : Add MIT Kerberos and let admin choose.
@@ -6308,7 +6310,9 @@ let
   udev145 = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/udev/145.nix { };
   udev = pkgs.systemd;
 
-  udisks = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/udisks { };
+  udisks1 = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/udisks/1-default.nix { };
+  udisks2 = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/udisks/2-default.nix { };
+  udisks = udisks1;
 
   untie = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/untie { };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/release-python.nix b/pkgs/top-level/release-python.nix
index 9d8319141dd..c51f45d6c5f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/release-python.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/release-python.nix
@@ -1806,7 +1806,6 @@ in
     gigolo = { type = "job"; systems = ["x86_64-linux"]; schedulingPriority = 4; };
     gtk_xfce_engine = { type = "job"; systems = ["x86_64-linux"]; schedulingPriority = 4; };
     gvfs = { type = "job"; systems = ["x86_64-linux"]; schedulingPriority = 4; };
-    libgdu = { type = "job"; systems = ["x86_64-linux"]; schedulingPriority = 4; };
     libxfce4ui = { type = "job"; systems = ["x86_64-linux"]; schedulingPriority = 4; };
     libxfce4util = { type = "job"; systems = ["x86_64-linux"]; schedulingPriority = 4; };
     libxfcegui4 = { type = "job"; systems = ["x86_64-linux"]; schedulingPriority = 4; };