On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 07:43:47PM +0100, Miroslav Rovis wrote > [So I don't understand why you] thought dbus was needed to be disabled > by other means, than the (as yet still) unofficial repo/overlay?) > > Or am I missing something?
You are looking at the Pale Moon overlay. I did not know about it when I first used Pale Moon. I originally downloaded the official version tarball from http://linux.palemoon.org/ which needs dbus. I built Pale Moon from source with several changes in the mozconfig file. I also built it with gcc 5.4.0 with additional optimization. Gentoo stable currently uses gcc 4.9.3. dbus was included in the original code from Firefox before the forking took place for a few reasons... * "necko-wifi" for improved geo-location, which you probably do not want. Since Pale Moon is separate from Firefox, they don't have a licence to use Google's wifi database. * WebRTC. I don't think it's enabled on the official version * "WakeLock". *IF YOU HAVE A SCREENSAVER THAT COMMUNICATES VIA DBUS* then Pale Moon can ask it to temporarily disable screensaving while you are playing a long video. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
