> -----Original Message----- > From: Lukas Pirl <bugs.deb...@lukas-pirl.de> > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 13:51 > To: Limonciello, Mario > Cc: 980...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Re: Bug#980049: fwupd: Should fwupd specify dbus as a dependency? > > Thanks for your quick reply, Mario. > > On Wed, 2021-01-13 16:10 +0000, Limonciello, Mario wrote as excerpted: > > I don't think it's a true dependency. You can use fwupdtool without it. > > It's only needed for fwupdmgr. > > Perhaps a Recommends would be better? > > I didn't know if fwupd is really useful without fwupdmgr. If using fwupd > without fwupdmgr is a common use case then yes, listing dbus as recommended > package is probably appropriate. >
I don't believe we have any evidence to say which use cases are more "common". But it's a use case that is supported by upstream, particularly since you can now optionally build without daemon/client and fwupdtool is placed in PATH by default. As such, I'll add a Recommends. > > That being said I don't think it would solve it for you. Systemd has dbus > > as a Recommends and you still appear to not have it. > > Even if systems are configured to not install recommended packages by default > (you are right, it does not solve it for me), then the list of recommended > packages can provide helpful clues, at least. OK.