On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 00:52 +0100, Arvid Picciani wrote: > 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.
I think that is because emacs decided to be an operating system instead of a text editor. Seriously, when I read the last release notes, I though: "WTF does a text editor need dns-sd for?". Seems they implemented that functionality through dbus, which is the only way to communicate with Avahi (actually the avahi client libs do it for you). I always thought GNU was about one tool - one job, but then they violated that by building emacs.
