On 30.11.2013 15:48, Dan McGhee wrote: > There are many packages in BLFS whose purpose and functions I don't > really understand. Even when I try to learn about them the descriptions > are cryptic and I still have questions. Dbus is one of those. > > I've installed it because it was a dependency for either dhcpcd or > wpa_supplicant. But now that I have it, I want to make it "earn its > keep." I know that it allows one application to "talk" to another one, > but that's the extent of my knowledge. > > While looking for something else, I discovered a configure switch in > xorg-server--"--enable-config-dbus." I'm thinking about re-building the > server with this enabled. What gain or advantage is there? Would
No. It's obsoleted by udev. > someone please give me an example? One thing that I thought of was it > might be useful when I build network manager. If my thinking is That's only true for wpa_supplicant. NM uses DBus to communicate with it. > correct, then network manager in graphics mode, xorg, my window manager > and wpa_supplicant could all "talk back and forth" to one another. Am I > on the right track or is this over-simplified? Or is it irrelevant? :) > XServer and DBus are no-go on Linux anymore. I believe that DBus was necessarry for communication with HAL (back in its days), but HAL is long obsolete on Linux. > Thanks, > Dan > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
