Re: Good news on claws-mail
On Sun 19 Oct 2014 at 00:05:08 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 19/10/14 00:29, Reco wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:24:16 +0100
> > Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat 18 Oct 2014 at 14:28:26 +0200, Peter Nieman wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote:
> >>>> Why
> >>>> it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown.
> >>>
> >>> You're asking the wrong question. The question you should ask
> >>> yourself is: if claws-mail works perfectly well without dbus, then
> >>> why does Debian ship a version that depends on it?
> >>
> >> claws-mail does not depend on dbus.
> >
> > This page tells otherwise:
> >
> > https://packages.debian.org/jessie/claws-mail
> >
> > OK, it's 'libdbus-1-3', not 'dbus' dependency, but libdbus-1-3
> > recommends dbus.
> >
> > Reco
> >
> >
> I think, based on the words used, Brian means "depends" not "recommends"
> i.e.:-
> apt-get --no-install-recommends install claws-mail
> will install claws-mail (and a host of other files) without libdbus
Thank you; that is a possible command I had in mind; there are other
ways of going about it but all lead to getting claws-mail without dbus.
Which once again raises the main question; what does systemd have to do
with this? The original post gives an unexplained solution to a
non-existent problem.
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