Patrick Ale wrote: > On Jan 3, 2008 4:21 PM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > >> Xorg 1.4 uses HAL (and thus DBUS) for input device detection, so in >> the future, killing DBUS may kill your X server too. Have fun! 8-) >> > > Seriously... either the documentation should be changed to recompile > JDS from console or the SUNWdbus package has to be excluded/moved thenuess > Well, I guess changing the documentation to build JDS from console is a lot simple than moving SUNWdbus package really. It is stuck with JDS because it is the only consumer (bar HAL)., guess things are changing. However, the desktop is stilli the only group who actively maintain this and have all the incentive to do so as it is so tightly coupled together.
-Ghee > :s > When we're going to have fun, as Alan puts it, you can't even fall > back to CDE when Xorg 1.4 makes it to Nevada. Actually Alan's reply > makes it even more reasonable/sense making to move SUNWdbus to the X > stack or system stack. > > As a matter of fact, I believe BFU-ing to onnv_80 even required some > dbus component which I worked around by linking /usr/bin/true to > /usr/bin/something. > > > Patrick/WickedWicky >
