Re: Slimming emacs-nox

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org> writes:

> Hi,

Hi,

> I'm totally happy with all the other suggested parameters, especially
> with "--without-dbus". Having the possibility to have an emacs package
> without pulling dbus bloat in would be great.
>
>> I'm also wary about removing gpm, sound, and dbus.  They seem
>> potentially useful with or without X.
>
> I don't see any usefulness of keeping dbus support. Where do I need
> that?

The most important use of D-Bus in core Emacs are some Trmp methods
(everything which needs GVFS), and some packages which use
notifications-notify (erc-desktop-notifications.el, org-clock.el,
gnus-notifications.el).

> 		Regards, Axel

Best regards, Michael.