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On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Miroslav Rovis |
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<miro.rovis@××××××××××××××.hr> wrote: |
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> On 161114-21:49+0000, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> I live without dbus. I've only recently noticed (can't be since long) |
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> there is a dbus flag. |
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I knew Gentoo doesn't force the use of dbus, but I had the flag set, |
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since I expected assorted breakages. For example, when viewing a pdf |
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file, will updating the view when the file changes be possible without |
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dbus? This is the kind of trouble I expect. Not the fault of Gentoo, |
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anyway. |
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As for the *kit stuff, I just don't have it. It's safe to do without |
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that stuff, as far as I can tell. |
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> Also, I've noticed that our developers are lending an ear to sans-dbus |
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> users, as they are getting way more packages then previosly that do not |
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> depend in the least on dbus anymore (Firefox, Wireshark, Inkscape ... |
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> well I don't use very many packages... Ah, not to forget, Qt5 now does |
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> not depend on dbus, or D-Bus, used below...) |
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Yes. A couple of weeks ago, I needed alpine, which tried to pull PAM. |
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The current ebuild already has PAM as an option, which is fine |
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(didn't emerge it yet, though). So, it seems some packages have hard |
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dependencies just because developers assumed "everybody uses it" or |
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"nobody will mind", not due to some dark agenda. |
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For my needs, Gentoo is the best distro out there. (Until recently, I |
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used Slackware, as well as Gentoo. Had to give up on Slackware 14.2, |
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with regret. Because pulseaudio,) |
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Regards, |
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Jorge |