[arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

[Arvid Picciani]

Pierre Chapuis wrote:

> Take gedit for example. It is a text editor, and:
> 
>     [23:44 TA|catwell] ldd $(which gedit) | grep dbus
> 	    libdbus-glib-1.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2 (0x00007f5df48bb000)
> 	    libdbus-1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 (0x00007f5df467c000)
> 
> AFAIK it uses dbus only to communicate with itself (between its instances).
> There is no iteroperability problem, so D-Bus is not that useful to me.
> But then again, maybe I don't know how gedit works well enough to judge...
> 


funny thing:  gedit is the first time i noticed the problem.
then i went emacs, and now emacs depends on dbus.

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Arvid
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