Alan Lord wrote these words on 05/22/06 14:10 CST: > I have a question which now seems as good a time as any to pose: in > that, as a non-"desktop" user (Either Fluxbox or XFCE at a push) would > there be any benefit to us minimalists using these automated features?
Perhaps not at the moment. But I can see more and more packages using D-BUS/HAL. It is not all for automation, it is being used for actual functionality as well. For example, in the Avahi package (a service discovery - Zeroconf networking type package), if you don't have D-BUS installed, you lose out on the basic functionality of advertising the services, your host provides. Said differently, if you don't have D-BUS installed, the Avahi daemon is not accessible over IPC to other applications. My belief is that more and more packages are going to go the D-Bus route, simply to use and be part of a common messaging system. If you don't use D-BUS now, my belief is that there will come a day when you will use it. > I thought this might be more appropriate on the general list, so please > feel free to take this over there if it is a better place. This list if fine for a discussion of supporting/describing a BLFS package. :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 14:19:01 up 10 days, 6:19, 1 user, load average: 0.64, 0.30, 0.12 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
