On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:40:10 -0500 Olivier Crête <tes...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 15:54 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:51:12 +0100 > > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > /bin/systemctl > > > libdbus-1.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libdbus-1.so.3 > > > > Here is a prime example of why "vertical integration" should really > > be called "a horrible mess of tight coupling"... > > You clearly have failed to realize that d-bus is a now the bus for > system messaging and is as much part of the system as syslog or bash. > Probably even more so, for example, in Fedora 17, you'll be able to > boot without syslog or bash, but you need d-bus.
No, I realise full well that some GnomeOS developers would like us to think that HAL, D-BUS, network-manager, udev-extras etc are part of the system, and are sloppily writing code that makes that assumption. However, the question ultimately under discussion is whether Gentoo is to be a Linux distribution or a GnomeOS distribution. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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