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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: sans-dbus was: gnome intrusion?
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 20:47:55
Message-Id: 20161119204409.11828.251A07F0@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sans-dbus was: gnome intrusion? by Rich Freeman
1 On 2016-11-19 14:16, Rich Freeman wrote:
2
3 > Presumably if you sent a dbus message to your service manager asking
4 > it to start a daemon that doesn't count as being behind your back.
5
6 I did not - some program which I never heard of but is part of the DE du
7 jour did, without any explicit configuration to do so. Typically when
8 loading some library which I never heard of, also part of said DE, for
9 the first time.
10
11 I hope you agree this is very different from daemons started by init
12 (whatever flavor).
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sans-dbus was: gnome intrusion? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>