Duke Normandin <[email protected]> writes: > I don't know if I should or should not _care_ about `dbus'! What do you think?
Desktop environments are a complicated subject. NetBSD has X11 in the base system, with twm and ctwn. In pkgsrc, which you are using, there are a large number, and you can pick whatever you want. (In GNU/Linux distributions, for reasons I don't understand, there is a strong "foo distribution comes with bar desktop" and this is considered to be a big deal, even though it seems one can just install whichever desktop one wants.) I am guessing you want emacs with x11 support, vs the emacs-nox11 package that runs in a terminal. The question would be what kind of window manager and desktop you want to run, and my guess is that if you had that installed, and it didn't hve dbus yet, and you installed emacs and got dbus, that's probably fine. I use xfce as something that is enough to let me have virtual desktops and a dock for a few applets (e.g. nextcloud sync), and that's about it. If you're running modern gnome, it's probably different. My advice would be don't worry, and if you have trouble and post about it, say what desktop you are using, and things that you have chosen that others might not guess. That's easier said than done of course.
