Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems
* Josselin Mouette:
> Le mardi 17 décembre 2013 à 12:26 -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>> > Is there actually any implementation other than glib2.0 and libdbus that
>> > would be affected by a switch to kdbus?
>>
>> This is an interesting question. Josselin, is GNOME (for example) likely
>> to acquire a hard dependency on kdbus through some mechanism? I don't
>> understand the plumbing of this stuff well enough to know where the
>> dependencies could surface.
>
> That doesn’t seem very likely to me. In terms of library API, kdbus
> doesn’t change anything, so there is no need for applications to depend
> on it.
Isn't it fairly likely that some libraries or applications will use
kdbus directly because their developers dislike the existing
libraries? It happens all the time with other kernel functionality
(inotify and its cousins, netlink, etc.).
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