On Sat 18 Oct 2014 at 17:29:58 +0200, Peter Nieman wrote:
On 18/10/14 13:49, Scott Ferguson wrote:
Do you have an answer to your question?
Wild guess - notifications?
I don't know claws, but I know from Wheezy that many packages depend
on dbus although dbus isn't necessary for doing the job. Please look
here for examples:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg00843.html
How is dbus necessary for opening a pdf file, for instance? And mail
clients were able to notify users even before dbus was invented.
Trying to get rid of such dependencies is a good thing, in my humble
opinion.
The original post was about claws. My reply was also about claws. If I
hadn't known anything about the topic I wouldn't have responded. You
obviously take a different view about things you cannot be bothered to
check. The OP made a specific *technical* claim. It has been shown to be
fatuous.
brian@desktop:~$ apt-cache -i rdepends dbus | wc -l
63
None of the 63 packages is a PDF reader.