On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 11:47 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > D-Bus is good overall... There could definitely be improvements in > remote connections though. I think there are workarounds... [snip]
DBus isn't an issue for applications you'll use with a desktop environment, when those apps should communicate with each other, but it could become an issue, if apps should run on other setups (too) and it's an issue if simple commands that worked before, then won't work anymore, the user has to read tons of explanations and to do complicated things. Clueless users run into issues with jackd(mp), since they were not aware that they can use jackd without DBus, resp. they perhaps were not aware that it does run with DBus on their machines. "Last year everything was ok, I updated Jack and this or that doesn't work anymore." - Imaginary User There are examples for other software, than DBus, where dependencies made production environments unusable, e.g. when the hard dependency to pulseaudio was added and disabling or coexisting didn't work. For other stuff package maintainers have to do a hard job, somebody seemingly does extract udev from systemd for Debian. I'm on a distro that follows upstream and there were many issues when they switched to systemd. IMO unneeded hard dependencies are an issue for several applications. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle Often new policies tend to break PC environments and are only an advantage for mobiles and tablet PCs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1365534505.2607.284.camel@archlinux
