[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] dbus cleanup

Leonid Isaev lisaev at umail.iu.edu
Mon Dec 3 17:07:14 EST 2012


On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 23:01:32 +0100
Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Daniel F. Savarese <dfs at savarese.org> wrote:
> > If you merge the two packages, what am I supposed
> > to do?  I can't simply remove /usr/bin/dbus-launch and
> > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/30-dbus
> 
> 30-dbus will go away, so that's not an issue.
> 
> That leaves dbus-launch. I don't see why you would want to remove the
> binary? Is something on your system trying to call it, even if we
> remove 30-dbus?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom

So... once this discussion emerged, I wonder whether it is a good idea to make
libx11 optinal as the dbus-launch binary will miss /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 on a
server setup? Perhaps it makes sense to indeed have a dbus-launch
split-package?

Best,
L.

-- 
Leonid Isaev
GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D
Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE  775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 490 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/attachments/20121203/803f6e67/attachment.asc>


More information about the arch-general mailing list