On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 10:36:57PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 15 Aug 2019 at 22:15:59 +0100, Tixy wrote: > > > On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 19:41 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > The fact remains that dbus is not a DE only package. How did anyone > > > get the idea it was? > > > > Perhaps because D-Bus stands for Desktop Bus and according to Wikipedia > > [1] > > > > D-Bus was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project [...] to > > standardize services provided by Linux desktop environments such as > > GNOME and KDE. > > > > It's seems quite reasonable to me for people to jump to the conclusion > > that it's not likely relevant for servers. > > > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus > > Jumping to conclusions is the ideal way of neglecting facts and promoting > fallacious assertions. I have given two examples that challenge > > dbus "...is redundant for typical server software"
The first one being "apt cache rdepends"? You can do better than this. The second one being CUPS? dbus is not required for printing itself. Reco
