Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

Mike Galbraith
2015-04-15T07:31:54Z

On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 08:54 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 3:36 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net
> > wrote:
> > > We had been there before. To paraphrase another... meticulously
> > > honorable
> > > person, "if you didn't want something relied upon, why have you
> > > put it into the
> > > kernel?" Said person is on the record as having no problem
> > > whatsoever with
> > > adding dependencies to the bottom of userland stack.
> >
> > It appears that, if kdbus is merged, upstream udev may end up
> > requiring it:
> >
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html
>
> Why so surprised?
> kdbus will be a major hard-dependency for every non-trivial userland.
> Like cgroups...

Heh, makes one wonder how we ever survived.

My openSUSE box is thoroughly infested with latest system-disease, and
it seems the thing has now mandated group scheduling. Whether you
need/want it and its size large overhead or not is immaterial. I'm
not seeing an on/off switch anyway.

(shrug, axe should work as substitute, say "byebye tentacle").

-Mike