Simon McVittie wrote:
Hi,
Recommendations for other software that relies on D-Bus
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This recommendation applies to ordinary apps that rely on having a
session bus but are not a core part of a desktop environment, such as
the Empathy real-time communications client. These packages should rely
on the distribution and the desktop environment cooperating to ensure
that a session bus is provided.
A hard requirement for a session bus should be indicated like this:
Depends: dbus-user-session | dbus-x11
(Open question: do we prefer d-x | d-u-s?)
A softer requirement can be indicated by a similar Recommends or Suggests.
These packages should not attempt to run dbus-launch or dbus-daemon,
except as a side-effect of using a library that supports X11
autolaunching - it is not their responsibility.
Is that really up-to the individual application to declare a dependency
against dbus-user-session | dbus-x11 ?
If the package name is changing or if we are dropping dbus-x11 in the
future that would require modifying again quite some packages. Shouldn't
this dependency only be declared at some other level (libdbus, GDBus,...)?
my 2ยข
Laurent Bigonville
