[arch-general] Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

[Heiko Baums]

Am Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:35:59 +0100
schrieb Arvid Picciani <aep at exys.org>:

> Heiko Baums wrote:
> 
> > There is a second option regarding your dbus/wpa_supplicant example.
> > Why not file a bug report/feature request to upstream of
> > networkmanager to remove dbus from it? Of course you need to file
> > this bug report/feature request to upstream of every package which
> > depends on dbus. As soon as dbus is removed from every package or
> > made optional at runtime then you could reopen this bug
> > report/feature request to Arch again. Otherwise it's better to keep
> > the optional dbus support in wpa_supplicant.
> > 
> 
> This is a VERY good point. I shall do that.

But I doubt that you will have much success. Maybe you should read and
think about dbus and it's intention before you file such bug
reports/feature requests.

As far as I understand it brings features like KDE's dcop to other
software, if it's not replacing dcop.

Heiko