(renaming, because it feels like a rant thread is inevitable) On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Stroller >> Reading that blog entry I found discouraging the idea that dbus might be >> required on my servers in the future, if systemd becomes popular with >> distros. > > I don't see the problem with D-Bus. It's small (the only hard > dependency it has is an XML parser), and it provides the Linux/UNIX > (de facto) standard interprocess communication system.
My chief gripe with D-Bus is that I've had X sessions disappear out from under me as a consequence of the daemon being restarted. Having a single point of failure like that is very, very scary. Otherwise, I like what it tries to do. -- :wq
