Re: [RFC] Ship dbus config and dbus service activation files

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

On 11-12-08 02:07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Thursday 11 December 2008 01:55:39 schrieb Mike (mwester):
>> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
>>> We can compile it completely without dbus support in a seperate recipe,
>>> if that's what you want -- but given the increasing ubiquity of dbus,
>>> that doesn't make much sense.
>> Which raises a point -- there are still devices out there that don't
>> want the X11 libraries (due to flash space limitations) -- perhaps it is
>> _dbus_ that needs splitting into two separate recipes, one with X and
>> one without?
>
> I'd rather write a patch that tries to dlopen libX11. dbus needs libX11 only
> for setting one property on the root window.

Well, as I said in another mail, dbus-1 and libdbus-1-3 don't require 
x11 *at all*, so no patch needs to be written. For people wanting the 
x11 integration they can install the 'dbus-x11' subpackage. Just like 
python-tk :)

regards,

Koen